Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Smith

I'm hoping our guys throw strikes and not be so much in awe of who we're facing. I don't want them thinking about getting autographs in the middle of the game.

Andrew Flintoff

I'll be taking my autograph book and I won't quite know where to put myself,

If she misses the next meeting, it's automatic that she vacates the seat.

If she doesn't get her hands dirty now, and if voters don't see this as mainly an auto industry problem, this may very well fall at the governor's doorstep.

If Peyton saw how Lee shot the ball, he'd have to be proud of him. I don't know as far as (Manning) it being an inspiration or anything but Lee played great, one of the best games I've ever seen him play. . . . If Peyton saw Lee shooting the ball like he did, he might want his autograph now.

I really think that the scare of the auto shock has run its course. I think business people now are collectively coming to the realization that yeah, it's going to be a harder economy to make a buck, but we have to face it.' We've seen some underlying strength in the last nine months, but now that they've come to that realization, they're ready to get in the game.

I love the challenge, ... The same kids who come in 'cool' are begging for autographs at the end.

I love speed and auto racing is an old passion ... I think I have made the right choice.

Simon Schama

I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Orlando Cepeda

I have trouble getting an autograph from him. He's really guarded about it, so don't take it personal.

It is very important for us to have a partner who understands the business and someone who understands GMAC's strategy and how it relates to GM's automobile business.

It is very important for us to have a partner who understands the business, and someone who understands GMAC's strategy and how it relates to GM's automobile business.

David Healy

It might be a slight negative to the auto business if it distracts them from their plans. He's trying to stir up the pot to make more money for Kerkorian.

Mark Goulston

It takes 30 days for a change in behavior to become a habit, and six months for a habit to become the automatic way a person does things, ... If they haven't changed in 30 days, it's not happening.

It's wrong to think of the automobile industry as a dinosaur. The automobile industry is the cornerstone of the high-tech industry in Michigan.

It's well-recognized that there is a shortage of pharmacists, and the whole system is being taxed. But wherever there is a labor shortage, there is an automation solution.

The U.S. auto industry will be much like the European industry is right now -- in a word, fragmented. Everybody will be fighting to get as much as 15% of the market. Nobody will exceed that for very long, if they get it at all.

The vendors are selling fewer full suite deals, multimillion dollar soup-to-nuts implementations, and we see that reflected in how they are trying to build services-oriented architectures, so they can deploy modules rather than big-bang implementations. This allows customers to piece together the business functions they need -- even modules from different vendors -- to meet the specific demands of automatic processing rather than having to buy an entire suite at the outset.

Cleo Moore

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.

They've played together for six years so they kind of know where each other is. It's kind of automatic and they know voices. They're a charm.

Things change, so you need people pushing buttons. When the director says 'drop cut seven and insert cut six,' automation can't do that. Sports is a seat-of-the-pants operation. For instance, we don't have a graphic for someone breaking a leg or falling on the ice or sky jump. If that happens, we need a custom graphic. You have to be able to change on the fly.

It may take a while for India to be like China, but we are seeing signs of automakers getting ready to enter the market, ... China and India are and will become the markets where all the major auto manufacturers want to be in.

It's largely reflecting the time constraints on the part of shoppers. Doing all the test-driving and research at auto dealers means that they are not at malls and department stores and restaurants.

It's going to render your web pages faster, and the automatic update feature will make sure your browser is always up to date. As a user you will notice the difference with this new version.

It's great to have an automatic berth in the region. The kids fought really hard.

For 2006, Minnesota's big economic stories will be problems related to the continuing cutbacks in the U.S. auto industry, a turnaround for the telecommunications industry, and finally a weakening of Minnesota's construction industry. Nonetheless, our survey points to still solid growth for the first half of 2006.

For any company that has a few IT people and more than 50 or 100 computers, it isn't that overwhelming to install and manage SMS. And if you're real small, you're probably just going to install automatic updates.

For an automatic trigger, it has to be a tie.

The number of gasoline- electric hybrid engines is growing but is still a very small share of the auto market and has limited impact.

Jeff Gordon

It's the only autograph I've ever gotten from a driver that I've raced against.

It's kind of like NASCAR. I don't know if you've been to Fontana for the California 500. There is more than an auto race going on. We are going to create the same thing here, and we have the room to do it and the facilities to do it, and that's our goal.

It's a lot of different factors. Auto sales were no surprise, but that's hurting the Dow, with GM falling, the dollar is down, you've got Warren Buffet making bearish comments, and then there's the usual malaise with Iraq.

Joe Biden

Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.