Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Bill Johnson

Relative to the overall statewide timber harvest, the net addition is relatively small. There is an effect, but it's a small one and it can be easily mitigated.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Walt Dabney

Parks, in addition to being quality of life components, in a place like Texas are huge economic generators.

Eric Goldberg

Recent hurricanes like Katrina showed it doesn't make sense to develop to that extent on barrier islands.

Bill Cheney

Record or near-record trade deficits spark howls of concern about the threat posed to the economic expansion, but like inflation, the trade deficit's bark has been far worse than its bite. April's deficit, another near record, simply shows that we are still importing like there is no tomorrow.

Todd Heap

Relative to last year, I'm very healthy, ... I'm happy about that. Obviously I just came off of two surgeries, and I'm barely five, six months off of shoulder surgery. But I've put in a lot of time and a lot of work to be playing now at the level I'm at.

Donna Myers

Relatively few people even recognize that there are beef ribs. However, when Texans talk ribs, they are, as a rule, talking beef which is no surprise from Texans, who consider all barbecue to be beef.

Rebecca MacKinnon

President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.

Rafael Ramirez

Our position is that we must evaluate a cut of between 500,000 and one million barrels per day (bpd).

Corky Palmer

Patrick throws strikes, and that's what you want in that role. Barry will start there for now.

John Bollinger

Part of the reason the January barometer works so well is a statistical faux pas. It uses January to predict the year, not the following 11 months.

Lauren Dougherty

Part of the magic of looking at Barbie is how she smiles at girls from her box on the shelf. And when our little girls open up that package, they want her to be in pristine condition, with neat hair and clothes all in check.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Idotha Neal

Rehab is occurring all around us. However, there is a significant funding gap keeping the buildings from being financially viable for high capacity developers.

Joey Spatafora

Reliable power to this building is a chronic issue.

Shelley Smith

Our players have taken more ownership of the team and responsibility for improving their play. They are doing what it takes to get better, working hard physically and improving their mindset of the game. With that they are building confidence and that will help as they try to maximize their potential. Our team knows that we were stronger last year then the results showed and understand the importance of consistent play.

Ron Mosby

Our objective is to ensure the building is occupied -- that it just doesn't sit vacant.

Ruth Luban

People have to know that just because the refugee has landed in a new job, they're not necessarily safe, ... It's about building resilience, holding your boundaries, not giving 80-100 hours a week to the job and not losing your identity to the job.

Robert Whiteley

People often forget about management tools when they're building a new network or looking at the one they have. Most hardware vendors provide management software with their products these days, but there is a whole tier of software that can give visibility into the network as a whole.

Joan Claybrook

Such lavish travel gives lobbyists an inside track with lawmakers ... and could even be interpreted as building the groundwork for legislative favors.

Tony Boyle

Staying away for the weekend is an excellent way of building team spirit.

Bill Hogan

Stan Buchanan (a starter on the 1955 NCAA champion USF team) surprised me when he mentioned a few years ago that the team had always wanted rings but did not receive them, so we started a process of building an event to honor this distinguished group.

David DeLong

Some of them are like kids in a candy store. When older people decide that work for pay no longer needs to be a full-time focus, suddenly a whole new world of opportunities opens up for them.

Ryan Potulny

I was like a little kid in the candy store.

Allen Iverson

I was like a kid in a candy store. It felt like the first game of the season because I was excited to be back.

Mark Shaw

I think it's a great idea. Monte's always been good to us. The wall is there and Monte's always been a big part of the community. He's fattened the postal employees up with his candy for years. He's a great guy. It would be a good thing to do.

Dean Devlin

I'm a kid in a candy story, ... And I'm living out a major fantasy.

Melissa Gregory

He was like a kid in a candy store. When he found out you could test drive a car, he drove every car he could find.

Stephan Sirard

He loves it. He was like this kid in a candy store.

E. O. Wilson

None of these kids have ever seen snow or been on a frozen pond, so everything is a first for them. They're like kids in a candy store.

Margarita Lopez

To produce this kind of candy is sickening. This is targeted to children.

Kate Clanton

Part of it is being a parent. I see so many kids that make some choices that maybe aren't very healthy. I would like her to get some leadership responsibilities.

Juan Torres

Our main goal is educating customers about their choices.

Richard Linkul

People now have a great choice. And choice is a wonderful thing.

Simon Clarke

Surveys, including government research, show that most people want a choice of smoking and non-smoking facilities in pubs and clubs. Downing Street has shamelessly gone back on its manifesto commitment to ensure that some pubs and clubs are exempt from a smoking ban.

Jim Colborn

Staying with Jim was the result of a very fortunate time in my life. I really had two first choices of where I wanted to be, with Jim or with the Mariners, a first-class organization to work for, ... at least one of the top candidates.

Martin Nissenbaum

States with no income tax complained that their taxpayers were at a disadvantage, so now everyone has the choice of deducting sales or income tax,

Patrick Lawlor

Stanford is my top choice, but it's very expensive and very hard to get into.

Ann Smith

Our strategy is to provide an opportunity for savings while providing choice for our members. We will be very aggressively moving people.

Richard Carriere

Our strategy is to offer a choice to PC users. We offer all the features of Microsoft Office and, since we started offering WordPerfect through OEMs in 2003, a large number of people have chosen us rather than Microsoft products.

Kate Clanton

Part of it is being a parent. I see so many kids that make some choices that maybe aren't very healthy. I would like her to get some leadership responsibilities.

John Patrick

Our goal is to be the industry leader in UNIX systems and solutions and in the process better serve customers and offer them choices in the market.

Bill Richardson

Our future will not be determined by chance, but rather by the choices we make today, and in the days and weeks ahead.

Becca Fitzpatrick

But if the choice I have to make comes down to you or me, I choose you. I always have. All my love, Patch

Billy Corgan

Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food.

Bill Crawford

As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.

Bill Crawford

Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.

Bill Crawford

There are only three things we 'have to' do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!

Carl Rogers

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

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.

Paul Patterson

Regulators often want to see some of the synergies and cost savings from these deals come back to the consumers in terms of lower rates or limited rate increases. Usually there are some givebacks in terms of rates.

David Emanuel

Our removal of those features was because we have become focused on search for consumers and businesses, and those features were not in line with our goals.

Anthony Chan

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Jon Miller

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

David Marra

People like lower prices if they can get the same quality, but convincing Japanese consumers of the quality takes a lot of time.

Marshal Cohen

Sports footwear usually is also the first place urban consumers will spend money to endorse a celebrity. As we've already seen, people will pay over $100 for the G-Unit or an S-Carter Reebok if it creates the right image for them.

Randall Baumberger

Our store should be like CES; it should be like the toy store. Our consumers are willing to try new products.

Anthony Noto

Our survey results reinforce our outlook for a continued slowdown in e-commerce sales. At this early juncture of the holiday season, consumers are not shifting a significant share of spending online from offline.

Jason Swearingen

Our lineup offers a lot of flexibility. We can hit people in different spots. And, we'll do a lot of things on the bases: hit-and-run, steal bases, move runners. We also have some batters with some pop. We have a diverse lineup with lots of ways to attack.

John Larson

Our priority will always be customer-focused innovation that provides real value for our students and ultimately increases value for our shareholders. By understanding our diverse group of students and their needs, we can successfully target our strategies and ensure that we maximize our investment in innovation and service.

Steve Mason

We need a diverse economy. It isn't going to keep the school open, or the hospital open, or the grocery store open all by itself. But it isn't going to hurt them.

Melissa Baker

I think they wanted a diverse group. I'm young to have had glaucoma.

Ryan Stasik

That was so long ago, we don't think about it. We like the scene, but it's not diverse enough.

Michael A. Stackpole

It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.

Ted Sarandos

I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

Greg Clark

Fremont is a diverse community, and I'm looking forward to working in it.

Carla Thomas

I think it is an exceptional movie with a very diverse cast. I'm glad that Hollywood can open its mind to different types of films.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Diana Light

I was influenced, or inspired by, my kindergarten teacher. I wanted to be just like her.

Barry Bonds

He kind of inspired me to get back, ... Things we say to young kids, this young man was saying to me. It motivated me.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.

Pat Summitt

I think it inspired the team so much. You could feel it in the gym.

Alvin Lee

I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside.

Joseph Conrad

He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it!

Jaime Nelson

He was inspired by it and wondered why we didn't have anything like it in the States.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Rich Mogull

Oracle has not yet experienced a mass security exploit, but this does not mean that one will never occur.

Gitesh Pandya

Star Wars' is going to be a massive hit,

Russell Tovey

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.

Noam Chomsky

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.

Rick Sherlund

I think that would take the stock down a lot. It would open them up to massive follow-on litigation.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Nikolay Davydenko

I can keep playing, get a massage at the start of every set,

Paul Mooney

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

Bob Holt

Part of the state-wide scheduling meeting was, some of these schools around the state have had trouble getting games, but if we all do our share ...

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Sabrina Davis

Some of the meetings are just a big mess. I'm sure if they reduced, they'd run much better.

Kevin Quinn

Our staff has been meeting today with advocates and also with members of the Legislature

Hosni Mubarak

We need another meeting and we need more deliberation,

Vernon Davis

Just from being around them and meeting with them, it seems as if they would take me.

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Robert Mueller

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Will Plyler

That was a game-changing play. It put the momentum in our favor.

Al Wilson

That was big, really big. That's what you got to do, man. Big-time players step up and make big-time plays. It was a momentum shifter . . . once that happened, that train was rolling.

Phil Nelson

That was our only chance. It put us in overtime and we had the momentum going in.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Darrent Williams

It don't matter. It was a momentum changer for the team.

Fernando Pisani

Just one of those things. We'll just try and ride that momentum.

Zhang Qiyue

China-U.S. relations, though having encountered difficulties recently, now have momentum for improvement.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I swear to you, Nora Grey, on this day, from now and forever, to give myself to you. I am yours. My love, my body, my soul—I place in your possession and protection.” He held out the ring, a single offering, a binding promise. ~ Patch + Nora

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Ayn Rand

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Dave Reichert

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Dean Ornish

Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.

Corrie Ten Boom

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

Conan O'Brien

Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Fred Carter

I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public school student-athletes,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Dana Smith

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Kathleen Ham

He's been out there 32 years. And I've been in my own private jail.

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Shirley Manson

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

Thom Browne

Anyone who is confident in themselves is much more stylish.

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.

Brandon Sanderson

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

Mamata Banerjee

Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

Alexander Lowen

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

Adolf Hitler

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

Dwyane Wade

To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.

Kent Mergler

This suit has been about placating competitors, not benefiting consumers.

Daniel Barenboim

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.