Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Keaton

I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.

By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

Clearly these three companies are becoming increasingly competitive vis-a-vis EBay, and the thought is maybe EBay would want to respond with a defensive move.

Clearly, the extreme events that we're now experiencing in California and Florida, and in Georgia and Alabama, and the ice storms in Maine and New Hampshire, are going to have an impact on our understanding that our climate system is becoming unstable.

Clearly, water and its availability is becoming a critical variable in many local land markets around the state.

Imported and non-native brands are becoming an increasingly important part of the marketplace.

Julie Gerberding

I'm sorry that this is becoming a political issue. This is really a health issue,

IMS can be seen as a last ditch effort by the providers to prevent their becoming just a bit pipe.

Rafael Nadal

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

The chairman stayed within his game, reaffirming the recent Fed message that growth is solid, inflation risks remain to the upside, and that the path of policy is becoming highly data-dependent.

The financial risk has definitely shifted to the individual as pension plans are fast becoming a thing of the past.

Steve Jurvetson

The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.

The filing fees are becoming an issue for bottom-end (small) companies.

The fight to change Wal-Mart is quickly becoming one of the most important political issues in America.

The company is focused on becoming the e-commerce hub -- the destination people come to buy just about everything.

The conditions are becoming increasingly adverse. It is grave, and being realistic, we think the situation is difficult.

The common idea that the cost of data storage is rapidly becoming zero is plainly wrong when you are talking about terabytes of data. It will cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to securely store the data in usable form. Europeans will end up paying a great deal more for communications so their privacy can be undone.

The composition of growth is becoming more important. The more it is orientated toward fixed-asset investment and exports, the more we are going to be seeing pressures for a revaluation and a potential trade disruption.

The competitive environment underscores the necessity of US Airways becoming part of a larger network and thus we remain fully focused on our merger with United Airlines.

The event is becoming a tradition for people from all over. People have parties at their house during the day or get there early and camp out and then go downtown after the show.

The event is becoming a tradition for people from all over.

The end is becoming a lot more real. It's one loss and your season is over. That puts a little fire in your butt. It's scary, but at the same time it's very exciting.

The employees we have really commit themselves to becoming experts about these products.

The evidence of gathering economic strength is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

The evidence is the underlying trend is very strong. All metals are becoming precious.

The evidence is becoming overwhelming that the program does not work.

The euro is becoming firmer, supported by a better economic outlook and expectations of further interest-rate increases by the ECB.

The euro gradually grinded lower as it's becoming increasingly likely that Denmark will opt not to join the EMU (European Monetary Union),

The harvesters of the fish are becoming more united. When you go into allocation meetings, everyone wants that last little bit. But if we had more fish, we wouldn't be fighting for that last little bit.

The impact of $60 oil prices in 2006 is very different indeed from the impact of high oil prices in the 1970s or 1980s. Energy is becoming a less important part of the global economy. Oil expenditure is currently about two percent of US gross domestic product, one quarter of what it was in 1980.

The immensity of the disaster is still becoming clearer daily.

The difficulty to form a government and reshape the constitution is now becoming huge. Hakim will find it now impossible to make meaningful concessions to the Sunnis.

You want to diminish the power of the boss's cluelessness to harm you. You do that by becoming an enhancement to the boss.