Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Kloza

Refiners are very popular on Wall Street now. If you bought refining (capacity) before the summer of 2005, you suddenly got one of the hottest assets on Wall Street.

Kit Spring

Real might need to look for a merger partner and I think the assets are valuable.

Trent Duffy

President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans.

Neil Macmillan

Patty's athleticism will really be an asset to our team. I feel that she has a lot of potential. I think she'll develop her hockey skills to a high level of play.

John Ford

Part of the reason we're doing this is that we like both the assets and the people.

Jacques Chirac

Our objective is simple: to give Europe back its dynamism, ... It has all the assets to be at front of the global economy. But, faced with international competition, there is urgency.

Jim Hankinson

Our mandate is to operate our assets as efficiently and as cost-effectively as possible. We don't see a sound business case for returning Units 2 and 3 to service.

Christopher Cagan

Our nation is a $10 trillion-per-year economy currently possessing $19 trillion in household asset value and $11 trillion in homeowners' equity. Losses of $110 billion - spread over several years - would come to only about one percent of the total national homeowners' equity.

Jeff Smith

Steve said he ran out of running rail where the gap appeared, otherwise it would have been easier and, in my view, that was a good performance beating horses like Asset and Close To You.

Zhu Bangzao

Our position is consistent and clear-cut -- that Iraq must cooperate with the United Nations and effectively and comprehensively implement all the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council.

Jiang Zemin

Our policy has very long been a consistent one. Peaceful reunification, one country, two systems,

Amanda Miller

Our passing was a little better last weekend, ... We just need to be a little more consistent with that.

Jim Tracy

Paul did a fine job. He displayed the characteristics necessary to become a consistent starter at this level. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw more of that in 2006.

Sandy Buerk

Our marketing is something we focus on every day. For the past 10 years, we have been consistent with radio and television advertising, as well as public service.

Brennan Brown

Our No.1 doubles team is a team all our other doubles teams look up to. They are playing at a very high level and very consistent level.

Bruce Gordon

Our nation's immigration policy must be consistent with humanitarian values and with the need to treat all individuals with respect and dignity.

Chris Shilakes

Our model forecasts applications license revenue growth of 55 percent and database license revenue growth of 18 percent. We expect Oracle to deliver applications growth consistent with our model and database growth in-line to slightly better than our projections.

Brian Calhoun

People know that I can run. But I want to go out there and run a good time just to show them that I can run (well) on a consistent basis, so that's what my focus has been.

Ramalinga Raju

Our marketing expenses will go down too. We are taking a stand where we would be guided by what opportunities it brings, whether it preserves our margins or whether it ensures higher growth. There is a range of things that we can do to structure these deals.

Jeannine Kenney

We think this is unfair, unworkable and unacceptable. It virtually ensures that on Feb. 18, 2009, tens of millions of televisions go black.

Travis Bradberry

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

David Ogden

The resolution of these issues ensures that this evidence of one of the most tragic events in American history will be protected for scholarly and research uses.

Kathleen Hohl

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

Graeme Edge

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Jon Peck

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Karen Hoem

Our overall goal this year was to make the playoffs. It's been a few years since we've been there.

Chris Shaw

Our question mark is in the back. We lost a few and our goalie. We are young in the back, but talented,

Ken Goldstein

Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad.

Markus Persson

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

Brad Radke

Our offense is much improved. We had a few guys who had down years last year. They'll help out more.

Chris Liddell

Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issue, and that is something we're going to have to reverse in the future.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Arsene Wenger

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

Ridley Scott

I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

Quintin Mikell

He'd been kicking low all day and we were getting pressure off that side,

Tom Bradley

keep it in perspective and tend to their knitting. The same people patting you on the back were kicking you in the butt not too long ago.

Paul Edinger

I think I proved in the preseason, kicking the last two weeks, that I could do it.

Bill Belichick

He's played safety. He's played in (the Dolphins') sub defense. He's played down in a linebacker type of role. He has some flexibility and has played in the kicking game.

Jim Grobe

If we had done what we need to do, we'd be kicking off.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Neil Dougherty

When things are going well he's patting someone on the butt. And when they aren't going well, he is kicking them there.

Willie Randolph

I think Mike is going to be a little longer. I don't see him rushing back or anything like that.

Michael Vick

I didn't want to see Mike go. I wish they would have consulted me, but it's all good.

Vladimir Guerrero

I swung after they took me out (Thursday), ... I just wanted to make sure I could tell (manager) Mike (Scioscia) I was OK. I didn't want to wait until (Friday).

Jack Brittain

What Mike has done is just incredible. He's really got people excited.

Allard Baird

Mike would still get time in the field. We are not thinking of doing anything else.

Nicholas Hytner

Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

Jon Gruden

Mike Tomlin is a candidate, obviously, in Minnesota.

Dan Rooney

Mike speaks up all the time. I don't see him taking any back seat.

John Shirreffs

Mike said he was waiting for the call.

Julie Johnson

Our own rendition of the show is made up of parts of three different scripts of the play.

Erich Merkle

Someone has to make sure Delphi's parts are not interrupted.

O. J. Simpson

I think it will do very well ... As with most compromises, there are parts they like and parts they don't.

Harland Braun

He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the parts that he's played.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

Tela Mange

We don't know what parts are going to be implemented or how we are going to do it yet.

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Benigno Aquino III

The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.

Keith Bromery

We've been searching for reliable weather technology for some time.

Ed Clair

They are proven. They rely on reliable equipment.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Grace Fey

I think it (the sell-off) was very overdone. For some of these companies, the fundamentals remain very strong.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is open. It will remain secular and apolitical.

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.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

Li Hui

I don't think you can write the state sector off. They will remain a big contributor to GDP.

James Rosenquist

We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.

Gordon Strachan

If I said to you we're signing Vieira you'd say 'what a signing that is',

Michael Taylor

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

Tommy Shaw

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Jayne Middlemiss

You know what you are signing up for when you become involved,

Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Mark Proctor

This is a terrific signing for us as we look to consolidate our play-off position.

Frank Langella

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Leslie Sloane

She's OK. She starts work in about two weeks.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Mo Ibrahim

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Tim Ritchey

We will know more after he starts galloping,

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

Blaise Pascal

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.