Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've been rotating them based on how they've been playing. I usually take one of those four singles players and move him to doubles with Chaplin.

Yolanda King

We were shocked, because . . . we did do a lot of information-gathering and spoke to people who were extremely ill and they?re here to tell about it. It came highly recommended. We made the decision to go, and Mother concurred, based on the fact that this place was doing incredible work and saving people?s lives.

Uchida is to be credited as the one who made our digital camera business into what we have now. The appointment is based on the leadership he's shown.

We can't make investments (in new track) based just on demand today, but how it will look 10 years from now and beyond.

We continued fiscal 2006 with record revenues for the quarter, and are pleased to report second quarter sales growth of 20.4% and comparable distribution sales growth of 18.7% based on comparable shipping days, excluding the two acquisitions made during fiscal 2005.

We have been citing improving execution as a key driver of earnings growth while conventional wisdom and headlines have credited cost cutting. Based on yesterday's results and questions on yesterday's conference call, we think investors are finally realizing that cost cutting is only part of the story.

We have good reason to believe, based at what we see at the scene, that it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound,

We have four monitoring stations here at Bahia Grande, ... The land based station is primarily meteorological and it measures wind speed, wind direction, temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity and soon we hope to install a rain gauge.

Mitch Mitchell

We do have concerns that businesses who were potentially looking to relocate to San Diego may reconsider based on the instability of the fiscal system here in San Diego. You would never want to relocate a business to San Diego and, on arriving, be hit by major fee and tax increases that increase your costs of operation.

Marla Sokoloff

When I was writing the record, I went through a terrible breakup with a guy of five years, so a lot of the songs are based on that.

Richard E. Grant

When people in the shade estimate UVB exposure based on an eyeball assessment, they're getting about twice as much UVB as they think.

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.

We wouldn't file it if we weren't optimistic. We think it's a deserving case and we think it's a very clear-cut case. This lawsuit is based on breach of contract.

We wouldn't be able to (make an) offer based on this exercise. This is very preliminary.

We would not consider that any of these cases have been thoroughly tested yet, based on the extremely limited information we have seen. We feel at this moment it is really too early to say if both of these cases are negative.

We would like to see you get together on Social Security, not for me and the older folks, but for our children. I would like for it to be based on actuary principal and if you guys don't do it, when is it going to be done?

E. P. Thompson

We believe that $30,000 is blood money. Paula Rader should not receive a financial windfall based on the death of these individuals.

We believe over time, customers will move to more function and higher scales sets of infrastructures. Customers needed an entry point to do SOA based on Web services.

We are sorry to say that until now, a high number of the figures of the regime and those who supervise terrorist groups are based in Jordan,

We based these charges on expected trends for the rate increase effective this month. We are all seeing increases in our electricity bills; it was difficult to predict this increase in energy costs.

We based our decision on the fact that the team we pulled together was extremely experienced with this procedure.

Ray McKinnon

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

To this day, I'd still have Kyle Orton running that boot on the corner, by himself, clearly having picked up the first down. It doesn't haunt me. I sleep well at night, knowing we did the best thing we could do under the circumstances. Based on what some of the other guys (on the team) say, maybe that haunted them.

Trust your hunches.... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

Flea

All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

Ivan Krastev

A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.

John Roberts

with an open mind. They won't be based on my personal views.

While financial markets are focused on all the gloom ... they risk missing the incipient turnaround in corporate profits. Based on the latest GDP figures, corporate earnings probably bottomed in the third quarter. Firms are making the necessary adjustments to restore profitability by reining in their costs, especially labor compensation.

The quick scores were plays that were based on the coverage. We take what we're given.

Chip Conley

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

Howard Schultz

Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.

Gabrielle Union

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.