Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jermain Defoe

I'm happy here, there's a great bunch of lads, the fans have been tremendous all year. I think we've achieved something special this season so I can't see why I would think about going somewhere else.

I'll be the first person to say it, I was preoccupied with a lot of things, and one thing that was put aside was the monument. I'd love to be involved and see this happen. A goal is not a goal if you don't achieve it, but it's a huge project where we need a lot of involvement. Not just six or seven people doing it.

David Siegel

I like the idea of Eliza's voice-over at that moment: 'My father taught me I could reach the ear of God,' ... She has achieved a kind of consciousness where she believes making this gesture will have some kind of redemptive value. It's some fundamental human thing like love.

In the first quarter of 2000, eBay achieved unprecedented financial and operational success. The company is firing on all cylinders as it expands to become a truly global trading platform.

Paula Dobriansky

In the coming weeks, we plan to hold a senior officials meeting of all partners in Washington to identify steps to achieve transparency, to improve donor coordination, to build capacity and develop containment strategies,

Ehud Olmert

In the coming period, we will move to set the final borders of the state of Israel, a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. We will try to achieve this in an agreement with the Palestinians.

John Bolton

In the interest of obtaining consensus, I said we would put off a decision until Friday, where we will either achieve consensus on having the briefing, in which case it will go ahead, or I will call for a vote.

Michio Kaku

In the history of our intellectual development this will represent the crowning achievement of 2,000 years of investigation into the nature of matter -- space and time.

Monica Crowley

In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence.

Stuart Clark

Interactive Data posted excellent 2005 financial results. In 2005, we surpassed the $500 million milestone in annual service revenue, an achievement that reflects the organic expansion of each core business as well as the contributions from our acquisitions.

Edward Kennedy

Instead of providing open and honest answers about how we will achieve success in Iraq and allow our troops to begin to come home, ... the president reverted to the same manipulation of facts to justify a war we never should have fought.

Intel Inside' is one of the great ones, one of the most brilliant marketing strategies in the last 10 years. Now they achieved awareness, it's over, and they need to move on.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

In talking to the guys elected, several of them were emotional about it. Many of them said this would probably be the highest honor they would achieve in their careers.

Bonnie Hammer

In Sir Sean, AFI has found a perfect honoree for its Life Achievement Award. A celebration of his outstanding work guarantees a tribute as entertaining as it is deserved.

Bonnie Hammer

In Sir Sean, AFI has found a perfect honoree for its Life Achievement Award, ... A celebration of his outstanding work guarantees a tribute as entertaining as it is deserved.

In our effort to achieve political balance, I did not want to damage public broadcasting's image with controversy.

In our view it's going to be a real stretch for them to achieve that type of gross margin in a revenue environment we think is at best in a muted recovery. Right now, they are getting the flow-through benefits of restructuring and cost-cutting, but at some point it's going to be a case of diminishing returns without volume growth which turns into revenue.

In our view, CSC could provide H-P with scale and reputation that would help H-P achieve its Services ambitions. The two firms' technology strengths are complementary.

In our quest to achieve success, let us leave no child behind.

In order for us to achieve that success, we must continually create strong programs and awards that benefit our members, while maintaining economic viability today and tomorrow.

In order for the commission to truly achieve its mission, it must be inclusive not exclusive and respectfully and constructively bring together people of different backgrounds and voices to solve our differences.

Theodor Herzl

In Paris, as I have said, I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon.

E. P. Thompson

I like to see when they rise in ranks and achieve their goals. It is good to know that you helped them achieve goals, that you taught them the skills that you know and that they are going to need.

Sergio Aguero

I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer.

I just thought, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' ... It was intimidating. One by one, we worked our way through the patients. I had a real sense of accomplishment at the end of the day.

Dennis Anderson

I remember baseball cards I collected of Greg when I was in Little League. Now, to be in the same locker room and be catching him in a big league game is quite an honor -- and an accomplishment to have made it this far.

I look at it as an achievement. I don't really try to make it a big deal. Tonight is pretty much my only celebration night and then it's back to work.

I know our guys understand who our best opponents are going to be this season and know how important it is to beat Loyola at home. The goal we've set this season is to win the regular-season championship. Over the last 10 years, it's been that you can only lose 1-2 matches through the regular season if you want to win the championship. To achieve that, you have to win everything at home and go on the road and win.

By maintaining a strong economy, we keep the pressure off the citizens, one, and two, we also keep in place the vision that we have for Harrisonburg to make it a place where our children can count on being able to live their American dream here instead of having to leave to achieve their goals somewhere else.

Paul Campbell

By launching our Knowledge Management platform, the state of Illinois has revolutionized its procurement process because our purchasing experts can better negotiate and reduce costs by making informed decisions. Knowledge Management could enhance procurement in government nationwide because it helps to deliver better contracts, stronger negotiating strategies and real-time pricing information that ultimately achieves the best value that taxpayers expect.

Clearly there have been atrocities going on. Once we have achieved a situation where Yugoslav forces have withdrawn we cannot leave a humanitarian vacuum in Kosovo.

Clearly the last 10 days before Christmas were very strong and allowed retailers to achieve their sales plans for the month despite the lack of aggressive promotions we saw in 2002.