Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Anderson

Like all our volunteer committee chairs, Alan Silverman has devoted an enormous amount of his time to this year's AES Convention program. The workshops he has developed reflect this combination of knowledge and dedication, and we greatly appreciate his effort.

Mark Robson

Like Alan Curbishley with the first team, I have a few options at the moment which can only be good for the team,

Peter Grant

Of course, it's been a long, hard road and there has been a lot of criticism handed out, especially to Alan, and what I tried to do was do my job as best I could and support Alan at the same time.

Robert Edwards

My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Jeff Carter

When I bought the business, I bought the name. Alan has taught me a lot over the years. He always made every customer feel like a friend and part of the family. He was always so good with people and so well-known in the community.

Ann Owen

I can tell you as someone who worked there, you really wanted to make sure that you knew what you were talking about before you presented something to Alan Greenspan.

Steven Wood

Given (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's) concerns regarding consumer attitudes this development has to be seen as worrisome.

Paul Levitz

I don't think Alan was dissatisfied at the time. I think he was dissatisfied several years later.

David English

I don't think Alan did anything wrong. He relied on his accountant.

Robert Teeter

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Pam Danziger

Luxury consumers' attitudes about the economy and their personal financial status have sea-sawed over the last six months, but ended 2005 with a strong upward trend. Significantly more luxury consumers feel their personal financial situation is better now than three months ago and that the country overall is better off. But while they feel better, the residual effects of the ups-and-downs they experienced in the recent past makes them a little tighter when it comes to luxury spending. In other words, they are more likely to take any windfalls to the bank, rather than to the store.

Don MacDonald

Seniors is what the Legion does and we suspect that there is a market. Times have changed and there is a lot of competition for the drinking dollar and attitudes towards drinking has changed, and a lot of the old Veterans have died.

Clarence Wyatt

One of the things I try to do is examine how attitudes regarding that conflict have evolved over time, ... Because it says a lot about how Americans treat those issues that were a part of that even today.

Doug Liman

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

Judy Rebick

For women to become equal they not only have to change the laws but also change attitudes and culture, because our culture is still incredibly patriarchal,

Wayne Williams

If a lot of the same people are there and have the same attitudes and habits, it may regress. Once this intense FAA scrutiny passes it may go back to its old habits.

Kerri Walsh

On the beach, the attitudes are more progressive, so it would be cool to do that as a subset of what we already do - as long as we play on a guy's net, so guys don't spike in our faces.

Gregg Troy

I was really proud of the way they swam this evening. We had a very average morning and it hurt us a little in the team scores. The ones that did get the chance to come back tonight did much better, had better attitudes and just raced better than this morning.

Ahmed Tugod

So far there's nothing new. We heard from the AU chairman the same proposals we'd heard before from the AU mediation team. It was very disappointing.

Graeme Souness

My intention is to have a word with the chairman and extend Lee's contract until the end of this season,

John Twomey

None of these numbers here are outside the realm of the policy forecasts that the Fed chairman was talking about yesterday, and the market's kind of saying that.

Wayne Angell

No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds rate at the December or February meeting. That's not going to happen. If that was going to happen, the chairman wouldn't have made a speech to puncture the exuberance.

Sen Freedman

Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.

Ed Rollins

From my perspective, if getting 24 percent of the vote is a victory, than we probably need a new party chairman and we probably need a new thought process.

Gary Weiss

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

Tom Schlesinger

I would be nervous about picking an inflation-targeting champion as my next Fed chairman given the potential impact on employment growth.

Attorney Garnati

If they refuse, in my opinion, Chairman Barnett should remove them. The employees and taxpayers have suffered enough.

Evan Katz

Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real.

Michael Siegel

Sen. Baucus has said that he expects a swift and smooth confirmation process. The hearing is expected to focus more on the larger policy issues rather than any individual concerns about O'Neill's candidacy.

Koichi Hariya

Securing the funds is easing concerns of default and other risks. The gains are unlikely to last because there aren't any signs yet that earnings are recovering. You need money to restructure and all they have so far is the barest of necessities.

Dick Parsons

Secular concerns that have weighed on our stock are overblown. Secular trends warrant us accelerating the program.

Barclays Capital

Much of gold's recent rally has been supported by positive investor sentiment in light of rising oil prices, inflation concerns and geopolitical volatility, and we do not expect these supportive macro-factors to dissipate in the near term.

Pat Casey

Maxwell hasn't given us the same starts as last year and that concerns us. And we need to get better out of the pen.

John Teng

Net-net, it is quite positive and would help to alleviate some of the concerns on the credit. There is now ample scope for S&P to remove the negative outlook on its rating.

Jim McGregor

One of our concerns was smaller members who might not be very sophisticated might be swept into this.

Brent Plater

One of our concerns is the pollution that's accumulating in whales,

Jan Chipchase

Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information.

H. Hart

Many consumers have made a significant investment in DVD libraries.

Joe Ridout

Many consumers have discovered that customer service can be a misnomer. The first person you encounter on the phone maze may not be the most helpful.

Van Baker

Many consumers are uncomfortable trying to figure out how to print envelopes on their printers. And the alternative of printing the postage on the letter itself requires a window envelope, which most consumers are not using.

Matthew Adams

Many consumers are moving away from three core meals because they are skipping meals out of necessity. Some consumers are instead eating only when hungry, and eating more frequent meals of smaller portion size.

Dan Levitan

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

Duncan Davie

Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when they're already paying record profits to the big oil companies.

Emme Kozloff

September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. While this is reassuring, the question remains: 'How long can the consumer maintain the current spending rate given expectations for continued pressure from energy prices?

David Carey

Semiconductor manufacturers have to predict the market. They have to think like their customers and take their own read on consumer interest.

Kevin Mitnick

Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.

Thomas p Kempis

Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Tom White

maybe you could have given him a letter of reprimand.

Caitlyn Jenner

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

Rosemary Fox

One mom said if we hadn't given her a laptop, she would have gone insane.

Dannel Malloy

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

Joanne Harris

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

Stephen Marley

Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

Elizabeth Warren

If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Michael Callahan

We always reserve the right to get better.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Kevin Blackwell

Getting back to the Premiership will be a big test but what we have shown here is resilience. Previously we have tended to be seen as soft touches.

Nikki Fennern

From what I've seen thus far, we've got a lot of options.

Mickey Loomis

From what I've seen on TV, what we can all see, that's what you would speculate. It doesn't look very good.

Brian Palma

If anyone's been around some very long cocaine evenings, there's nothing that's in SCARFACE that we all haven't seen before.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.