Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Rick Perlstein

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

Edward Jones

Many of the leading technology companies have shown solid sales and earnings growth since the economy began to improve in late 2001. While technology earnings have continued to grow and the stocks have remained flat or even dropped, we believe the prices of many of these companies are more attractive than we have seen in a long time.

Sigi Schmid

Sebastian is a very attractive player. He has a huge pedigree in soccer and he has a strong desire to play in the States. He has the potential to be an impact player in this league.

Abraham Lincoln

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Abraham Lincoln

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

John Wong

Medical insurance should become very attractive to middle-class families in China because they really don't want to undertake that risk themselves.

Alan Boss

M dwarf stars dominate the stellar population in the solar neighborhood, and so are attractive targets for searching for habitable planets. The models show that gas-giant planets are indeed likely to form?at distances sufficiently large enough to permit the later formation of habitable, terrestrial planets.

Bobby Jindal

One of the things that made him so attractive to voters when he ran for mayor was ... he was an outsider.

David Ferris

One attractive consumer solution is to offer a backup service.

Yiddish Proverb

Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing

Lou Fintor

Let me underscore that the U.S. will not enter into dialogue in response to threats or broken commitments and we will not bargain or offer inducement for North Korea to live up to the treaties and commitments it has signed.

Larry Coker

LSU met their part of the bargain and we didn't.

Ralph Miller

Send (your negotiator) back to the bargaining table with some direction, some ideas, some flexibility and some willingness to reach an agreement.

Kurt Barnard

So far, this has turned out to be the year's great bargain hunt,

Heather Dougherty

Online retailers continue to re-create the offline world on the Internet. People come out to the stores the day after Christmas looking for bargains. Now a natural part of shopping is to first poke around online. Some shoppers might see bargains online and decide they don't have to fight the crowds in the malls.

David Cole

More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone. The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.

David Cole

More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone, ... The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.

Rocco Calo

Negotiators were prepared to discuss that issue today, but Sikorsky would rather play games than engage in good-faith bargaining that would get people back to work.

Douglas Preston

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Jonathan Nolan

One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.

Paul Westerberg

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

Candice Olson

Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.

John Green

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.

Robert Coleman

From my basement I heard an explosion and I ran and I called for my family to come downstairs. And I saw fire bursting out of the basement, so I got them as quickly as I can and I came outside and the fire started upstairs.

Michelle Miller

I don't have to throw stuff into the garbage that is perfectly good. I'm cleaning through my basement and closets and have been able to offer a lot.

Clinton Sparks

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Gail Cross

We were sitting in the basement and we heard this deafening crash.

Bible Bible

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Islam Karimov

Major communication and energy projects will be legally drawn up within the Eurasian Economic Community summit.

Bible Bible

Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Daniel Stein

Letters ultimately lead to the foundation of theater, which is communication.

Cheech Marin

Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

kim booher

Miscommunication is often a "tap root" when a problem arises.

Shi Yongxin

Modern technologies facilitate my communication with the world and help me to better manage the temple.

Vic Rubenstein

My feeling is that in four-to-five years, that's going to become one of the major communication systems in campaigns. It creates an opportunity for voters, people in general, to have a voice -- a very convenient voice.

Kofi Annan

Obviously we need all our tools, helicopters, trucks, communication to be able to operate, ... We are placed in a situation where the government has not been cooperating and has limited the movements of our troops.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Alex Salmond

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.

Brett Rumford

I worked very hard back home and it looks as though everything has fallen into place.

Jacob Gruse

I guess it's a loss, so I shouldn't be so positive about the game. They could have fallen down and quit on me in the third quarter. But they didn't.

Lin Laing

So many of these people have fallen through the cracks.

Phil Flynn

The question is where do we go from here? We've fallen so quickly in recent sessions, will there still be momentum to go down to the low $50s?

William Shatner

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

Mario Andretti

I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.

Ian Robertson

What we've got is a guy who has shown leadership in another industry who's come to our area, fallen in love with the area, and been prepared to invest in it.

David Pogue

I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.

Rasheed Wallace

We have an agenda. We want the hardware back.

John Hughes

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Bill Gates

Hardware is a small part of the cost.

Mark Loughridge

This was a very light hardware quarter for us.

John Patrick

We don't think that any one hardware platform can meet everybody's needs and we provide multiple platforms for that reason.

Wayne Hale

We were playing the odds. The hardware was talking to us, and we were not paying attention.

Stephen Hawking

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Eleanor Catton

I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

Stump Mitchell

Mack always is looking to get better, not just maintain.

Jared Bernstein

Maybe we were looking under the wrong rock.

Bill Fulkerson

Maybe we're looking at November for oral arguments.

Simon Hawkins

Obviously we weren't able to offer him what he was looking for.

Matt Campbell

Obviously, we're looking to go well past ($1,000) this year.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Sheperd Paine

Monogram was reissuing the kits they made in the '50s, and they were looking for something new to give them some oomph,

Johnny Damon

More times than not, he's going to come through. He threw some tough pitches on the outside of the plate to get him looking out there, then he threw a perfect pitch in. Shields was an All-Star for a reason.

Christopher Monger

Now we are looking for distribution and fielding our first sales offers,

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

Safa Rashtchy

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Shahazad

My destination is at a place where my late-friends and relatives are waiting for me to arrive.

Chen Shui-bian

I got up at 2 a.m. for this trip. I want to see my relatives and I want to see China,

Dave Bristow

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Jon Favreau

I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Christine Gregoire

If we remain complacent, we'll be a second-rate competitor.

Saudi Arabia

I didn't want to talk to them. I had a right to remain silent.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Max de Pree

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Tyler Bolick

Basically, salaries have stayed the same since I started.

William Petty

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Ralph Johnson

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Fred Brooks

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Michael J. Saylor

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Eisenberg

If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wouldn't want to touch,

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Chuck D.

if they don't think he can play shortstop then they should think about trading him.

Carol Kennedy

We routinely look at any unusual trading activity.

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.

Paul Diamond

Right now we're still in a trading bind,