Famous Quotes & Sayings

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Daniel Alarcon

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.

We're still going to have to see what the benefits will look like based on what kind of programs come back from private industry. We do have high goals for the industry.

We're seeing strength in technology and current optimism is based upon inventories worked down -- even Motorola indicated they're making progress in that direction, ... Techs are doing well and people will be combing their lists of stocks to buy for the long-term, but it's going to be a highly selective process.

Norv Turner

We've got good competition, ... I think, based on a game or a half, some people start jumping to conclusions, but I think that is one of our most competitive positions.

Bob Bradley

We've tried to see if on certain days we can play three in the back and certain days play four based on our opponents. In that regard we try to create a good understanding on how to play and not worry about the formation.

Bob Bradley

We've tried to create a good understanding of how to play as a unit based upon the team we're playing against. We always try to build around the strengths of the players.

We're going to familiarize ourselves with (Hernandez) so we can get a pretty good idea, as we enter the season, of what we can expect with him as far as workload goes. I don't want to say, though, that because he threw 125 innings or so last year, that he's not capable of throwing 180 or 190 innings this year. It will all be based on how he feels.

Kenneth Clark

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

John Rogers

What we rely on a great deal is the person's demonstrated behaviors over time, based on people who know them and have worked with them.

What 15-year-old hasn't felt like that at one time or another? With all the evidence, I can't believe they're willing to call this a simple runaway based on one page in her dairy and something a friend said. She was mad because she couldn't go to a winter formal dance with her friends.

We felt it was best suited to have our preparation based on that worst case, which in recent history was 1918.

We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, execute, keep going after the loose basketballs, we can make our own luck.

Clive Beddoe

We sell seats based on USD$50 oil and then fly people at USD$65 oil. Obviously, it's not going to be good for earnings,

We select our members based on like or similar thinking.

George Lewis

We selected Autotote and Scientific Games based on their industry reputation, the success they have helped bring to the Mohegan Sun Casino racebook operation, and their demonstrated commitment to the Ho-Chunk Nation.

We need to have a discussion based on data and the social significance of that data. Considering the time constraints, I think it was a good study.

We need to restrict it to the group most vulnerable, based on the most recent research. I can not predict where this will go in the future.

Ann Macbeth

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

The government's prosecutions of corporate fraud will be judged based on the verdict in this case. If there is an acquittal, the government's corporate fraud prosecutions will be deemed at best a modest success. To the extent the government is being tested, this is the final exam.

Alan Furst

I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.

Albert Murray

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

Adora Svitak

The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.

Apolo Ohno

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

Adam McKay

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.