Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Antonio Vargas

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.

I guess there were a couple days when Melissa came out when both of these stocks jumped up a little bit. But then Network Associates announced their poor quarterly results.

Keith Olbermann

Homeland Security issues warnings of further terrorist attempts to use airplanes for suicide attacks. Number five. December 17, 2003. 9/11 Commission co-chair Thomas Keane says the attacks were preventable. The next day, a federal appeals court says the government cannot detain suspected radiation bomber Jose Padilla indefinitely without charges. And the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, Dr. David Kay, who has previously announced he has found no weapons of mass destruction there, announces he will resign his post. December 21, 2003. Four days later, the Sunday before Christmas:

I didn't even know this was a first. I found out when they announced it. I knew it could be possible to win again, but all I really wanted to do was my best because I figured last year was as good as it could get. Well, I topped that, and then some.

Lofa Tatupu

I didn't hear coach when he announced it. I just couldn't believe it.

For me it's great timing because we announced my ride today and now I will get to go talk to media around the country. It's the first time that anything like this has ever been done and I think it's really good for Champ Car. I think it's great that we can go around the country and get out in front of the fans as well and the media and the sponsors.

For database servers, app servers, and Web servers, the tools are all there now, or have been announced and will be shortly.

Jim Finn

If you consider that PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards put together the best financing approach when they announced their original merger, this sub-optimal approach can only be a ploy to preserve management's self-interest.

In recent months, both General Motors and Ford have announced plans to close numerous facilities, eliminating roughly 2.4 million units of North American capacity through 2008. We estimate that once these restructuring initiatives are complete, North American capacity for the 'traditional' Big Three will likely drop below 10 million units, down from over 12.5 million in 2005.

Once the next nominee is announced Lambda Legal will take the same approach we did with John Roberts. We will carefully review any material relevant to our community's core issues of concern and work to insure that during the Senate hearing the nominee is asked about, and addresses those issues.

Dell has been positively impacting the High Point and Piedmont Triad economy ever since the site was announced last December,

Despite the phenomenal growth of Las Vegas, the construction talent pool is not deep enough to provide the needed labor to build all currently announced projects. We believe if all announced and anticipated projects were to proceed before the end of the decade, a significant portion would not get off the ground given the limited depth of the construction talent pool, most importantly subcontractors.

Warren Buffett

Despite the lack of precedent, a negative coupon security seemed possible in the present interest rate environment ... I asked Goldman Sachs to create such an instrument and they responded promptly with the innovative security being announced today.

Despite the announced closure of the two Tyson plants, Nebraska's confidence index stood at a regional high of 70.2. Certainly, the rising fortunes of the state's ethanol and renewable energy industry have buoyed businesses in this industry or firms with close ties to this industry.

A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.

Any marketing program that we would offer would be consistent with the marketing strategy we announced on Jan. 10.

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

A replacement will be announced in due course. The ship is in good shape and she feels she needs a change.

Rebecca MacKinnon

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

Jane Green

A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.

Gary Johnson

After completing a strong first quarter, we are very disappointed with the product transition setback that we announced on April 19.

A couple of weeks ago we announced we were proceeding with negotiations with News Corp. That is our priority, ... We are engaged in these negotiations with News Corp. and Sky Global Network. The company and our board of directors have an obligation to respond to the interests of all of our shareholders. As such, we would always consider any alternative.

Some sanctions have been announced which are pretty irrelevant.

Clive Woodward

I've announced a strong team with over 300 caps between them,

Sam Katz

Thanks to the funding announced today, we will not have to tap other important budgets to put police on the front line,

Teams had started to work him out, packing the outside when he had the ball, so we played him at Gloucester last week after naming Brian Lima and we announced Lima would play in this game. It messed up defensive plans.

Right now, we haven't announced a freeze. We're closely monitoring any new purchases that anyone is sending over to us. I wouldn't call it a freeze yet. I may be announcing something like that in the next week or two.

President Hinckley is resting comfortably. As announced last evening, we expect that he will recover rapidly and resume his normal duties soon.

Todd Dunivant

Sampson hasn't announced the starting lineup. I'll take a fitness test before the game (to see if I'm ready). I'm optimistic.

SAN FRANCISCO-September 7, 2005-Apple today announced that the entire Harry Potter audiobook series is now available exclusively on the iTunes Music Store, the world's number one online music service. For the first time ever, every audiobook in the series, including the latest release,

As we look to the future, the changes we've announced today are necessary for us to effectively compete, ... Over the last several years we've made considerable progress in reshaping Cooper into a company focused on our higher growth and less volatile electrical tools and hardware businesses.

About 10 seconds after they announced our name, David Pak was yelling, 'let's go practice, let's go practice right now.' Everyone was ready to leave behind him. It recharged our batteries.

Eliot Spitzer

It's a scandal that is still unfolding, ... many criminal and civil cases that will be announced in the months to come.