Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Scott Faber

Recreation produces better economic benefits than barge traffic.

Katie Bayne

Regardless of which Coca-Cola brand is their favorite, My Coke Rewards will give everyone who loves Coca-Cola the chance to benefit from their passion for the brand in a unique and special way.

Jim Lowe

Regardless of economic conditions, employers should have severance and separation benefits updated to remain competitive.

Bruce Josten

Reform is critical if we are to encourage businesses to offer a pension benefit now, while many workers still have time to build for their retirement. Without reform, more workers will be forced to rely on Social Security, which is already facing financial difficulty.

Thomas Barnett

Price-fixing threatens our free market system and robs consumers of the benefit of competitive prices. We vigorously investigate and prosecute companies and individuals involved in these conspiracies.

Chris Tomlinson

Our research proves, very clearly, that onshore wind will deliver, bringing major benefits to the economy and the environment while securing our energy supplies.

Amr Moussa

Our reform will not come to fruition, regionally and that everyone in this region will benefit from, except if peace prevails,

Eva Obarzanek

Participants in the two intervention groups made greater changes than those in the control group and saw the greatest benefit in blood pressure status. This shows that people at risk for heart disease can successfully and simultaneously make multiple changes in lifestyle, for a substantial benefit.

Allan Smith

Part of the scholarship process is to hopefully encourage students to stay in the region and use the things they learn to benefit our region,

Peter Norden

Previously, Pope John Paul has taken a position on capital punishment . . . and given clear teaching on the value of all human life, not just innocent human life.

Gale Kaufman

Part of it is he doesn't have a lot of capital with his own party's leadership. Part of it is he just doesn't understand the process or care to engage in the process.

Kevin McFarland

Our main goal is to go downstate as a team. We definitely have to capitalize on the opportunity we've got.

Michael Butler

Our New York office put us closer to the private equity community. The San Francisco office offers greater proximity to the venture capital and growth equity communities.

Clayton Christensen

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

Clayton Christensen

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

Paul Kasriel

Sustained economic growth is dependent on profit growth. Without profits, there will be no new hiring of workers and no new capital spending.

Bill Curry

Split shipments are not always bad. We look for an optimum inventory level instead of having every item in every distribution center. It can be a better use of capital to occasionally do a split shipment instead of stocking every item in every center.

Jeff Suppan

Some of these games, it's hard to come up with an explanation. They were able to capitalize on my mistakes and put together some good at-bats, and I didn't make pitches.

E. Hicks

Jeff Marcus is one of the most successful and dynamic executives in media-related industries today,

Mark Showalter

It is more evidence that our solar system is a dynamic place, somewhere very active.

Bill Bradley

. . . I think I do understand the dynamics

Scot Pollard

I think (the style of play) is working for us right now. The dynamics are there, we just have to keep from getting selfish and keep playing the right way.

Colin Trevorrow

'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

Brad Childress

I don't feel we're struggling to run the football. I think we've been in some games with different dynamics where you weren't comfortable standing there thinking, 'I'm going to run it between the tackles.' That probably wouldn't be a good thing to do if you're down 17 or 20 points.

Phillip Fulmer

I don't know that we have been as dynamic offensively as I thought we would to this point.

Dave Hakstol

He's a dynamic force for us right now offensively.

Dusty Perdue

We lost that one in the first quarter. Their press was dynamic and they were just quicker than us.

Ron Wilson

Patty played a great game. He was taking the puck to the net, and he was a force. I think he got excited when he saw he was going to be on the point on the power play.

Roger Taylor

Paul is not someone trying to be Freddie. He's someone trying to take this somewhere else... I'm very excited about working it all out.

Elizabeth Gabler

People have too many options for their entertainment, and we've got to work to get people excited about movie business.

Billy Boyd

People love the movies and they just get excited when they see someone from them, no matter who it is. It's always positive.

Dwayne Hickman

Suddenly I was on stage.Looking out into the sea of screaming excited teens, I thought for a fleeting moment that maybe I had been too hard on myself, maybe I was just as much a teen singing sensation as this slick Avalon fellow.

Jeff Fried

Steve's excited as can be. He's just excited to get there and perform.

Joseph Jackson

some form of normalcy with all the madness going on. ... It's a different experience for him. We're excited about having him go to a different school and getting a different perspective on learning.

Mohammed Ali

Some people are excited to take it. Others are refusing to touch it.

Royce Chadwick

Our players are very excited to play on TV so all their families can watch. We're down to late February and every game is of the utmost importance. It's nice to be home, and we have a lot of positive things in our favor. We're looking forward to a big crowd.

Raymond Gilmartin

Our goal is not to be just one of the largest pharmaceutical companies, but also to be one of the fastest growing,

Kelly Anderson

I was a little frustrated because she never should have had to slide. It's a good thing she's our fastest runner.

Jim King

It is a very high speed launch so it is one of the fastest satellites we have launched for a project like this.

J. Moore

I think there's always going to be a need for aerial application because it is the fastest way of treating a pest infestation.

Jason Maynard

The acquisition has effectively expanded Red Hat's market opportunity in one of the fastest growing sectors of software.

Sean Whalen

That was the first time she's swam it this year and it's the fastest on your team this year.

Hans Arnesen

I think this race is going to be aggressive. There are a number of teams out there that have solid riders that are going make the race fast. They aren't going to sit in the pack and have the slower (teams) stay around. From the start, this race is going to be played out to be one of the fastest races in recent years.

Charles Stewart

It is not very pervasive. It is the fastest growing part (of new voting technology).

Derek Parra

I went from skating my fastest times this summer to just being fatigued by the stress of the divorce. It really hurts when I can't talk to my daughter.

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

Paul Gallay

Our relationship with communities is growing as we work with private- land owners and planning boards.

Jane Rosenthal

Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.

Paul Casey

Our numbers are growing in our regular program as well.

Ron Ruff

Our laws just keep growing and growing and growing.

Nancy Todd

People learn growing up to react with anger.

Mike Shanahan

Some guys (have) got more growing to go. That's part of the season. But I thought we made some strides and hopefully it pays dividends.

Aaron Oldfield

Our boy's team is very young; we only have a handful of seniors. They are going through some growing pains.

Daniel Meckstroth

Manufacturing is growing but the pace of growth has decelerated. The outlook for manufacturing production in 2006 is for moderate growth.

Beck

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

Laura Halldorson

I think ideally we would like to stick with a lineup here down the stretch. That would be the goal, but I'm not going to rule out the possibility of tweaking it if we think we need to at some point.

Eric Coyne

Ideally you want to do this once, and do it right.

Oliver Luck

Ideally you'd have 12 months to set this up, to get a staff and do everything necessary, and we've had three months to ramp up. But we'll be ready to go.

Samantha Fox

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Joe Eberhardt

We have more inventory than we'd ideally like.

John Rash

NBC and advertisers would ideally like to have maximum momentum moving into the Olympics in order to promote them.

Erin McKean

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

Malcolm Rifkind

a serious impediment to the kind of smooth transition that we would ideally wish.

Valery Yashin

Our main task is to strengthen our position on the market through investment in the development of new services.

Andrew Steer

Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.

Richard Pierce

Our taxes are going up anyway. It's an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Trevor Manuel

It is something that we should be able to release very very soon. We owe it to the people who need to make a long-term investment in mining in this country.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Harvey Pitt

We meet with lots of people ... we meet with representatives of many investment groups,

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat just seized the opportunity and made the most of it.

Stephen Farrell

Our opportunity here is to provide our patients with all of their medications as a full-service pharmacy.

Jonathan Schwartz

Stay tuned on the Red Hat-Sun relationship. We think there's ample opportunity to work together out there.

Chris Huffins

Our women are very hungry. They know they have an opportunity to dethrone Stanford this year.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Barry Manilow

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

Barry Manilow

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

B. D. Wong

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

B. D. Wong

I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Mark Brunell

I'm not thinking about my portfolio in the huddle,

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

Karen Wheeler

We're getting into several of the sciences that had not been delved into before.

John Pierce

This is what we do. We put together different sciences and technologies to make things.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

Bob Hayes

That's the strength of our offense, no doubt.

Greg Page

It is a collaborative effort. After 15 years of being together, we know what each other's strengths are and who should write what song.

Thomas Grandi

I would have to say a combination of the two. We've got strength and we've got stamina.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Blaise Pascal

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Ayn Rand

Get the hell out of my way!

Pete Mackanin

I think he's more suited for the bullpen. I've been wrong before about players, and I'd like for him to show he's a starter.

David Davis

He was always encouraging me. He just told me I was better suited for football.

Mark Kelly

Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door.

P. J. O'Rourke

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

Mark Kelly

I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.

Samantha Fox

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Kim Coble

We need a much more supportive infrastructure for farming.

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Homer Thompson

I was always in support of the coach.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Michael Campbell

I think it's the Polynesian connection. I have a lot of support here and it's wonderful.

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Italo Calvino

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

Jean Cocteau

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.