Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're not playing well by a long shot. Tonight was very sloppy. I attribute that to only playing nine games.

We attribute this drop in selling price primarily to the effects focus and concern over avian influenza has had on international demand for poultry products and to the disruptions caused by having to reroute product in transit to locations other than those intended as these concerns materialized.

We attribute that to the voluntary FAA flight caps that were put into place last year.

Amy Davis

We offer great services to our customers, but how we deliver those services, how we personalize them to our customers, is what leaves a lasting impression. I'd love to attribute it all to our training, but it's the level of employee we hire, those who are friendly and have great personalities. That's the critical part of the whole process.

Udall has two attributes that we look for when we're thinking about what makes a seat much less competitive: He's a well established incumbent, and he has a strong partisan advantage.

Idina Menzel

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

Isabel Sanford

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Ellen G. White

By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.

David S. Rose

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

Orison Swett Marden

When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.

Djimon Hounsou

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Spider Robinson

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Olivia Munn

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

Marilynne Robinson

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.

Howard Bragman

When I rep a celebrity, to me they're a brand, not just a person - and a brand has attributes and things it stands for. I'd say take some of the heat that's on her and turn it to something of value - say Katrina relief or breast-cancer awareness.

When I first got the job I didn't think that we lacked leadership. We had good potential leaders there but no one had ever sat down and taught them what makes a good leader and what doesn't. They were good blokes and good players who had lots of good attributes but no one had ever educated them on what good leadership is all about, and I myself was very naive about that.

Craig Harris

We get sick, by and large we know we get sick -- but we don't know if it's food-borne illness. We can see that Americans tend not to attribute as many of our illnesses to food as we should.

We haven't had a report from any store in the country that has seen a disruption to its operations today that we could attribute to the boycott.

Those who had attributes that were closer to being Caucasian were deemed more acceptable.

We'll let the whole year play out ... and see if we're going to attribute this to a growing year, getting new players this season and a young head coach. We'd have to build quickly next year, though. It's very hard to get a quality player (in free agency). Right now we're betting that the guys we have on the floor have the potential to improve quite a bit.

Albert Claude

We know that the cell has possessed these attributes and biological devices and has continued to use them for billions of cell generations and years.

Mark Few

He's a fiery, fiery competitor. His greatest attribute is not that he makes shots, it's how hard he competes. When the game got tight, he was there. That was vintage Mo.

He's a guy that can become an all-American this year based on the fact that he has the physical attributes that you look for in offensive tackles and his feet have improved immensely. He can be a dominant force, a guy that holds the corner for your quarterback.

He's a great player. You can see he's going to be a great player when he gets older. He's a great attribute to the team.

Sean Durkin

Her number one attribute is her competitiveness. She refuses to let her team lose. She refuses to be stopped.

He's also had a lot of success with special teams particularly last fall where his units accounted for six touchdowns. Justin grew up in a coaching family so he's been around the profession for quite awhile. He just brings a lot of positive attributes to our staff.

Ben Howland

His No. 1 attribute that makes him great is his toughness, competitiveness and his pride. He is unique.

Ricky Williams

He's going to be really good, ... He's big, he's fast, he's strong, and I think his best attribute is his mind is really sharp.

We looked at seven or eight different job descriptions and this is a summation of those. This is intended to give us a starting point on what might be the attributes and the duties and responsibilities of the chief.

Kelly Price

I'm not nearly as big as I was, but I attribute that to eating healthy. I'm just not a skinny girl, and I just want to give more opportunities to people like me.

Art Modell

He was an extraordinary man of impeccable character, integrity, honesty, compassion and fairness. He had all the attributes you want in a human being. He was a friend of mine for 45 years. He was more like a brother to me than a friend.

He is a player who excites fans and runs at people. He is very pleased. He is a good kid, an honest player and is good to work with, which is one of the main attributes I want as a manager.

He has shown enormous personal attributes and the professional competence which is needed to do the job well, so I think he would be an outstanding choice if they can convince him to do the job. But he either wants to do the job or not and I don't think you can force people to go down that road.