Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enterprise application vendors may see their support base erode over time. I'd like to see vendors not only offer premium support package but a reduced level of service options for customers that need more support and less likely to upgrade.

Eminent domain has been used historically very judiciously and mostly appropriately in North Carolina and other states. Our opposition is strictly based on our concern about the potential change in direction with eminent domain that the Supreme Court had opened that threatens private ownership of property.

Mark Udall

Emergency-response management should be based on career expertise and not political connections,

Michael Gray

Employers have to be very strict about hiring people based on objective criteria. You can't just hire them because you like them.

Employees will choose companies, as well as remain loyal to companies, based on the perception of that company's whole corporate social responsibility, ... Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause.

Pat Robertson

energized the religious base of the party in a way that George Bush could not. He's handed George Bush a tremendous gift.

Eli got the big two-out hit to tie the game and for a few innings he is the hero in the dugout. But the tough part of baseball is you are only remembered for what you did in your last at-bat or even your next at-bat.

English rugby is based on physical strength, discipline, seriousness and determination. They struggle to get out of their pre-established game plan. They can get easily lost when they are unsettled ... they probably lack creativity.

Earnings have been fine, but they just haven't been as robust as people were hoping. The guidance for the third and fourth quarters hasn't been that strong, and part of the rally was based on people betting that the second half of the year would be good, so with the numbers not saying that, you're seeing some selling.

Driving a powerboat is a bit like having one person throw a bucket of water over you while another hits you with a baseball bat.

Drivers pulled over on Travis County roads this week could be pleasantly surprised to find out they were targeted for driving well. If somebody does something illegal, we probably won't give them the baseball tickets.

During 9/11, we had a rapid response. We were in the secondary schools. We were in the elementary schools, and we were at headquarters. We touched base with all the schools and worked our way through the district. We started immediately.

Gerald Massey

During this period in rebuild mode, we've seen our growth rate on the base business decline to the 15 to 20 percent range, ... It's not where we want to be, and in 2006, we expect to return to historical levels of growth.

Each course is a theme, and it's based on something that is uniquely Southern, ... Shreveport is right in the middle of the chicken-fried steak Southern belt and Creole cooking. So I've blended the two together.

Each case is different. Each has its own unique factors, entirely based on the merits of the company's case. If people have outstanding objections, it would go to the investigation stage.

Each case is based on its own merits and facts, but it has been my experience that a change of venue is very rarely granted.

Early in the season, we shot ourselves in the foot. The last couple months of the baseball season, you want to make it tough on other teams.

Early in the game, I left a man on third base with less than two out. That's not very much fun.

Equity capital flows into real estate continue to be robust and investors are looking globally for investment opportunities. We are able to successfully identify and execute on opportunities that exist around the world based on our geographically diverse platform, our worldwide relationships with corporations and real estate companies, and our view that real estate market fundamentals continue to improve.

ESPN has been a tremendous television partner and I am extremely pleased that we will be enhancing our relationship with their coverage of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. The magnitude of ESPN's reach will provide the broad, in-depth coverage that this event deserves.

Especially when you see Houston there. I love baseball, but I'm definitely watching football. Plus, I have to keep up with my guys.

Especially smaller sports like baseball with coach Chris Wells and basketball with Greg Elliott, where you have like 15 guys, they are brutal. They know all the kids' teachers.

Eternal realities are based upon real eternal relationships and priesthood ordinances.

Even if Napster goes away, file-swapping on the Internet will not go away, ... So the base of 50 to 60 million users, and because Napster has a significant brand recognition, the music industry may ultimately decide that this is the industry player that we need to do business with.

Even during an economic downturn, Oracle's installed base of customers continues to grow, so our revenues from license update rights continue to rise. That's the underlying strength in our business model. That's what allows us to maintain our profitability at high levels even though we increased research and development spending by 15 percent,

Even down to the most insignificant detail, they had it exactly, ... it was as if you had stepped out of Prague into the year 2145 on a base on Mars.

During the time it took to resolve the lawsuit, construction prices had increased so drastically that we were unable to build Icon based on its original pricing.

Natalie Portman

First of all, they can be enjoyed on a real popcorn level, really simple entertainment where you can go to different planets and be completely transported to a different place. On a deeper level, it's based on mythological elements that are things people really cling to.

Jeff Garlin

First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh.

John Gibbons

First of all, he's been in the organization a long time. Second, he's had a lot of these guys, ... He's a good baseball man, and he's paid his dues. And he's from the South.

(FedEx) is really a play on the broad based global recovery. Sort of moving out of the truckers, moving into the international people away from a strict domestic U.S. focus, more toward international focus,

Michael K. Powell

Fascinating though the issues are, and as serious as they are, I believe the Majority has given in too much to their collective imaginations, rather than sound reasoning based on the record, in reaching some of the conditions on the merger,

Mario Llosa

Feast of the Goat. It has been like a huge birthday present that this film based on one of my novels, one of the novels I worked hardest on to write, is released on the day of my birthday.