Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Gervais

That's exactly what it did on BBC2. The people that get onto focus groups are force-fed big, broad comedies with laughter tracks and guest appearances. They're not going to like 'The Office' the first time they see it because they're not going to know what they're watching exactly. But if you stick to your vision and auteur it the way you think it should be done, there are enough people in the world that are like-minded and they're going to find it and it's going to be their favorite show.

Existing broadband users were the early adopters who used to pay for the dial-up wait and they got impatient with it, which is why they switched over to broadband, ... We see a slowing down in broadband growth partly because most of the low-hanging fruit of early adopters have been harvested by broadband providers.

Audra McDonald

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

Jerry Yang

Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

Despite yesterday's broad advance, trader sentiment remains sober.

Any moderation in recent optimism toward holiday sales could certainly impact the broader market, including tech stocks.

Jon Evans

As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.

Meg Whitman

Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing user region with markets like India, China and Korea leading the pack as Internet and broadband penetration rise.

As an industry, we have not done anything like this before. Our goal is simply to increase public understanding of the broad role that higher education has played in the past and must continue to play in the future.

Dick Cheney

Our concerns are broader than that, in a sense that we really need to sit down and look at our total energy situation nationwide -- maybe even look at it in a hemispheric basis, ... Look at Canada and Mexico. Look not only at electricity, but also natural gas and oil, coal and other forms of generating power as well.

People say the city will recover, and the question is, whose city? Is it the city that the tourists see or is it the broader city that really only came to the nation's consciousness after the hurricane?

People do think of us as being the home of the big Broadway musicals, but we can still be the home for some of the plays that are showing on Broadway.

David Chang

Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You'll find 'natural flavor' or 'artificial flavor' in just about every list of ingredients. The similarities between these two broad categories are far more significant than the differences.

Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging.

Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country.

Yoko Ono

No Rodgers and Hammerstein on Broadway now. Only Juke Box.

The mystery is why this prolonged profit slump has not led to a larger cutback in consumer spending, ... The longer the profit drought persists the greater the risk is that this recession will broaden and deepen.

Charlie Pierce

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

Bob Muglia

The move away from tape as a primary means of restoring data, and using tape for archiving purposes, we think is going to become very broad in the industry.

After a year or two, the number of business jets (with broadband Internet) will far outstrip the number of commercial airlines.

Jeanne Shaheen

And, you know, we're looking at some broad themes for the convention, stronger at home, respected in the world, and looking at -- at how John Kerry's career and life experiences play into those themes.

Energy stocks should find support in the oil price and the earnings news will support the broader market. It is difficult to see any negative factors.

Entrust is one of the companies today that has a very specialized solution and has yet to broaden its portfolio. It's ripe for acquisition.

During his tenure, Charlie used his broad business experiences and sound judgment to help steer the company through many challenges over the past decade. Through Charlie's leadership, we have built a world-class financial organization and strengthened Lilly's reputation for sound financial operations, transparency in our financial reporting, and strong internal controls.

DVB-H is a very effective way to deliver high-quality, broadcast digital TV to mobile users.

During tsunamis the first casualty is power. So solar panels need to be used to broadcast data to a satellite. All the nations are changing their systems to record on real time.

Equities have been hammered, reflecting the broader financial community's view that energy is at its peak.

Five might be one broadcast network too many.

Charles Dunstone

First we launched free calls for our customers, today we're launching free broadband forever. Our focus will now be on processing all orders as quickly as possible. Demand is going to be enormous.

Everything we do online we want to be participatory. We don't want to just broadcast GE's messages. We want to involve the consumers in our advertising, particularly the online advertising.

There's only room for one con man in this town. It's still on Broadway (now with Jonathan Pryce) and playing to full houses.

Mimi Rogers

There's a fine line between tasteless and crass and just out-there, offbeat sensibility. This is sophisticated lunacy. ... If you are looking for a very broad silly comedy, it works on that level, but if you are looking for something intellectually subversive, that's really there, too.

Sathya Baba

See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.