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.

Carol Moseley Braun

I want to rebuild America.

Carlos Mencia

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Carlos Fuentes

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Willa Ford

We have said we intend to restore automotive profitability in North America by no later than 2008 and we remain committed to deliver on our promise.

Roger Wilkins

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Jeri Ballantine

We have neighbors from South America, the Middle East, India and four or five different Asian countries. It's really a great melting pot, and all the kids play with each other.

Brian Jeroloman

We have so many leaders. We're so prepared. Coach McMahon is the best coach in America. People who have been watching basketball saw they had some bumps in the road, too. There is no doubt in my mind. We're going to succeed.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Montel Williams

When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues.

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Gary Sinise

You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

Rodney Pratt

We did not capitalize on our lead enough. When they gave us a push we didn't push back.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Flip Saunders

We've won 22 of our last 24. You play 82 games, and you don't like to say you didn't have it, but we didn't have it tonight. We didn't capitalize on our opportunities down the stretch.

Scott Parker

When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team.

Janice Min

She will have to find a way to reinvent herself, and the public is ready for that. People are fascinated still, and there is a way for her to capitalize on that.

Mark Wagner

We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Thomas Galvin

Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event.

Mark Foley

We've seen how (terrorists) have used our state to assemble, so it's really critical we have the voice of Floridians represented,

Jim Walton

There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

Sherwood Smith

When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.

Stewart Udall

Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

Ellen Stofan

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Eric Liu

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

Mack Brown

The other thing I would say about Vince Young is he just had the highest passing efficiency of any quarterback in the country. We're very complicated with what we do offensively, and he's won 30 and lost two. He would have graduated next fall.

Doug Liman

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

Bruce Lee

Efficiency is anything that scores.

George Bernard Shaw

There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

Al Diamond

If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it

Andrew Lo

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

Louis A. Johnson

To the limit the present law allows, I promise you there will be unification as rapidly as the efficiency of the service permits it.

Bill Cockhill

We need to improve our efficiency and production.

Jim Bollman

He's done a very good job as a leader. One of the hardest things to do on offense is be consistent, and he's really done a good job. His passing efficiency (194.0) has been outstanding. He's done a good job of being a disciplined player.

Stephen Chick

We've seen some existing home sales figures starting to look weak or negative. That's usually followed by a slowdown in sales at Home Depot or Lowe's after a six- to nine-month lag.

Bob Chase

The fact is a lot of our local associations have been willing to look at alternative pay schedules on top of existing plans.

Mayor Ralph

What we did was expand existing areas. We didn't go out and include a new one. When you say smart growth, that doesn't mean no growth.

Richard Boucher

We're not going to provide any quid pro quos for North Korea to live up to its existing obligations.

Michael Hooper

We have a path replacement and extension program going on here. There's an existing path there that runs in the greenway that needs replaced, which we will be doing, and possibly extending it a little further. This extension will stay on the park grounds.

Tom Schoewe

We have just under 1,000 projects in the pipeline for the U.S. alone, or three years worth of future growth planned. We'll do it through new stores, through acquisitions and by growing sales in our existing stores.

Michael Grice

We're looking for ways to reach out to new students, existing students and faculty, and a large part of this will be with marketing,

Kumar Mangalam Birla

It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.

Julie Bishop

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

Peter Rice

Whenever we can, we like to improve the situation.

Travis Bradberry

Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Sue Miller

This will not only replace what you have now, it will drastically improve what you have now.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Mark Lee

We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

Krish Krishnan

We have seen a tremendous increase in terms of the interest we are getting here.

Jiang Enzhu

We have no intention, nor the ability, to increase our military armaments substantially.

James Long

We've seen a slight increase (in international travelers). But it's not like it used to be.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

Jeremy Siegel

The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Carlos Fuentes

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Carlos Fuentes

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

David Crystal

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Dave Barry

Actually, there are people from all ove - not just Latin America, certainly not just Cuba, but all over Europe, all over the United States. I like that. I like knowing a lot of different types of people. And I can afford to live in a relatively safe part of Miami.

Carl Sagan

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

Cesar Romero

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Cesar Romero

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.

Carter G. Woodson

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

Carlos Slim

I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

Bruce Beresford

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Craig Ferguson

A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

Michael Roberts

I find there's always something to do in Mexico City, at any hour.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.

Rob Allyn

We only read about problems on the border, drug smuggling, poverty and immigration, and we don't see that Mexico in many ways is a solution for the United States as much as it is a problem.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

George Cunningham

We've been out there shaking the bushes. We're going to have to reach out to our churches.

Richard Wagoner

While it may have taken some time to reach this solution, I think it was time very well spent,

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Jared Ingersol

With this region being as strong as it is, it was important for us to get off on the right foot.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Wen Jiabao

There is still educational disparity between different regions and between rural and urban areas,

Antonio Guterres

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

Edgar Mitchell

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.