Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Zwilling

We have asked the teachers union to delay the normal time for contracts in order to allow us to work on the process.

Xue Donghua

We have not been able to contact her. The U.S. Embassy and the Red Cross are not allowed to visit her. We have no idea if she is in good health.

Ron Moore

We have no language to allow wind energy systems in our existing zoning ordinance.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Bob Combs

We have no current plans to change our regulations and allow their use during competitive play on any of our three tours. Of course, their use continues to be permitted during practice rounds.

Jim Collins

We have never made it a secret that we allow commercials on talk channels.

Bruce Bowen

Whenever you allow a team like Dallas to shoot more than 50 percent, things aren't good for you.

Darrin Zeer

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

Claudia Vercellotti

When you see a priest on trial for murder who is allowed to wear his priest garb, we think he creates an undue bias.

Karel Amaranth

We want to see children before anyone commits a crime.

Joe Paul

We want to remind everyone how important it is. All indications that anyone has told us is that this year's weather is going to be as bad as last year if not worse.

Jeremy Newberry

We have to get back out there and work our butts off. The only way to get a bad game out of the way is to go out there and work really hard to get better. ... Everyone has to go out there and not point fingers at anyone and continue to find ways to win.

Pam Walker

We have not 100 percent denied anyone yet. We have a number of people who are missing something.... They might owe as little as $17 to the Department of Revenue. We're working with them on that.

David Young

We have no intention of blocking or degrading other services on our network. We are giving customers what they want, which is fast pipes at a low cost. Anyone who tries to take that away from consumers will be punished by the market.

Rolf Wilson

We have so many more competitors now. Anyone who wants to can do it and it's a great spectator sport.

Mark Radke

Whenever you change technology, there will always be select individuals who will be resistant. When ATMs were introduced, people were saying, 'I don't want to get my money out of that box.' Now, hardly anyone walks into a bank.

Lleyton Hewitt

When your ranking gets outside 150 or 200, there's no doubt that it's hard for anyone to come back and play well week-in and week-out,

Edward Gardner

When he got the ball, he hit the hole. He either went left or right; he never let anyone hit him head-on. You can't coach that. You can't teach that.

Darrell Braden

We have no benefits at all -- no sick leave. What most people have, we don't have it.

Ed French

We want our members to be able to maximize their point earning potential. This card not only allows members to earn more Marriott Rewards points, and it also gives them many benefits such as a free-night certificate yearly, and 15 nights towards Elite status.

M. Wolfe

We want market share at the end of the day, ... You've got to have it because those are the companies that are going to have pricing power, and  they are going to enjoy the benefits of margin expansion on the back end of this.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Michael Ryan

The fact that pay for performance is reinstated demonstrates that council recognizes the quality of staff that we have here. And it shows that they understand the benefits in rewarding and retaining quality service.

Donald Kennedy

The process benefits enormously from the kind of candor that results when referees know that their identity is held in confidence.

Robert Bonner

The reality is these are major companies we have dealt with for years .... We got tremendous security benefits by essentially embracing the private sector in what is the largest and most successful government-private sector partnership to form after 9-11.

Sergey Galitsky

When you make money, it's natural to enjoy all the benefits it offers.

Mark Cooper

When you say programming costs have gone up, what you are saying is a vertically integrated cable company has decided to shift the profits from the left pocket to the right pocket,

Timothy Noah

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

Kerry Hibbs

This was a setback, not only for AT&T but for any consumer who wants a choice of cable providers.

Craig Moffett

There are cleaner ways to invest in cable than Cablevision.

John Taylor

Where the cut happened was inaccessible by car. Crews went in on the railroad. They carried cable in, stringing it through the trees.

Kirk Acevedo

Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day.

Caroline Chappell

Until recently, the SDP has been very much a mobile network initiative, and most SDP suppliers have roots in the mobile industry. However, fixed network operators, and even cable companies, are leading the next round of SDP adoption.

Amy Heckerling

I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.

Shane Carruth

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

Jerry Jones

We've also done planting on Adams' Farm and in Cherry Creek, so this is only part of it.

Rhea Perlman

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

Donatella Versace

My favorite pantsuit is done in cherry color and all this is a very classic fabric with, like, a bustier, ... Very, very sexy.

Frank Lee

Without the proximity of the schools, it's hard for rivalries. When we play a key game at Cherry Creek, we don't travel well, and when they play up here, they don't travel well. If we were playing someone like Monarch, my guess is it would be packed.

Mark Ritchie

We have created our new packaging to make a stronger connection with our cherry flavor and to stake out our claim as the original cherry-flavored soda.

Paula Patton

As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion.

Carley Beaudreau

There is definitely tension there (between Collins and Cherry Creek). But I think everyone has some sort of tension with Creek because they are so good. But this year it's just more about us doing well as a team.

Ciara

I've had purpose because I've always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I've dreamed of.

Ed Thompson

Had we known when we were designing Cherry what we know now, we probably would have designed it to have two trails.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Karsten Keunecke

We've seen hazelnut prices peak at $11-12 a kilo (9-10 euros), from $2-3 a kilo. That's not an evolution, that's a revolution, and for companies producing products with high hazelnut content, that's a real disaster.

Nancy Alderman

We've seen companies reduce their pollution because of this.

Allen Bailey

We have had a lot of offers from record companies to go into the studio, but they wanted us to cross over. We turned them down. Instead, we are taking the cross with us.

Abheek Barua

The fact that price pressures are muted suggests that earnings growth of Indian companies will continue to be driven by volume growth, not by pricing power.

Tyson Slocum

The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.

Ed Jensen

... The fact that middle managers think their companies are mismanaged is particularly alarming.

Steve Levy

The creation of these sites is akin to the government aiding and abetting an illegal underground economy that puts legitimate companies out of business.

Bob Lennon

We have a solid five and some good competition for those sixth and seventh spots.

Mark Dunkerley

We have no problem with competition. We are happy to take on competitors. But it's a different story when you are playing poker with somebody who's already seen your cards.

Shi Yinhong

We have never before seen so much economic competition, and we have never seen American officials at such senior levels express concern about China's military buildup,

Jacques Herzog

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are a few things that haven't been done, like the use of light and the use of color,

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Jack Foley

The process is working, but we still have to judiciously select our new markets and the ones where we expand. It's a matter of timing and restraint to let the major competition get out of the marketplace.

Taylor Lautner

I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

Dusty Baker

Walker is probably the front-runner for that position. But he knows he has some competition for that job.

Jim McNerney

Ultimately the final contract remained within the requirements of our No. 1 negotiating principle, which is enhancing our competitiveness,

Greg Tacon

The facilities are great, the kids are great, but there's an underlying pressure that's there and nobody talks about it. That's the way it is, and it sucks. We all want to win, but the kids and the relationships are why we do this. If it's the winning that drives us, I don't want to be part of it.

Erwin McManus

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

Kyrie Irving

When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

Timothy Noah

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Elizabeth Holmes

It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.

Lynsey Addario

The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.

David Jones

The point about labor market weakening suggests the Fed's ... worried about that. That drives home the point they're going to keep these rates unchanged for a long period of time.

Nick Woodman

Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.

Willie Nelms

We're not going to stock the latest DVD that you can get at Blockbuster. Our mission drives what we buy.

Jessie Coiffard

We have to get focused. This was pretty much a practice game. Now we have to pick it up and play really hard.

Roger Dow

Vegas is going to pick up, too, ... If you want to party, everything's there restaurants, gaming.

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Dellena Criner

We're starting to pick it up at the end (of the season). We're focused.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Jared Dudley

We're not here to look at what the analysts pick. If you pick that, that's great. But first things first - we've got Pacific.

P. J. Harvey

We've got many weapons. You've got to pick your poison, whether you want it out at the perimeter or in the paint.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Ella Henderson

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

Steve Ross

We think there are simply too many many instances of 'borrowing' for this to have been unintentional.

Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.