Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gwendoline Christie

I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down and do karaoke with me here,' and then we'd sing Kate Bush songs and get really, really emotional and theatrical in the booth.

I've already tried to call Ray twice (after the AL playoffs), but I know he's a busy man,

Dean Winters

I've always been drawn to stories involving brothers, which started with my first viewing of Sean Penn's, 'The Indian Runner.' This subsequently lead to my working with my two brothers, Scott & Brad. I couldn't imagine a greater gift in the business.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

I've actually contacted the White House to invite President Bush before. I'll do whatever I can to invite people.

Terry Wogan

I've always been the kind of person who leaves parties early to catch the last bus home.

Michael Kirby

I've always been into documentary photography and spot news is one of my favorites. After 11 years in the business I was in the right place at the right time.

Vincent Damphousse

I've always been interested in the business side of hockey. I know hockey and with the chance I had to be vice-president of the Players' Association, I got to know the business side better. But for now, I haven't decided what I'll do.

Catherine Ndereba

I used to train with my husband, Anthony Maina, but he is now too busy as a helicopter pilot, so we only run together when I do light jogging. I don't want to kill him before his next flight!

Cindy Sheehan

I want Bush to stop using my son's sacrifice to justify the killing.

I want big business to pay their share. We could create revenue to go back into our education fund. If we took back that lost revenue, we wouldn't have any more poor teachers.

Texas politics has been dominated by George Bush for so long. It's a whole new world.

Tyrus Thomas

Texas gave us some hard punches and we had to be Buster Douglas and swing back. And we swung back at them. We knocked out Mike Tyson.

Christina Romer

Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.

Greg Nickels

Thanks to a strong local economy, we can expect significantly more sales and business tax revenue, ... Strong real estate sales will also provide much more revenue for the city than initially forecast.

Jennifer Dunn

so that families don't have the sell their businesses and farms when Mom and Dad die.

So often, it's the men and their business dealings that make it down through history. But this gives us a chance to look at the females of these times and the strong roles they played in society.

Sony's previous business plan seemed to focus on costs and less on the product line-up,

Sony should concentrate on games, movies and music and software businesses rather than hardware businesses. I'm not quite sure about their concentrating on flat-panel TVs because this is a very competitive market.

Sons- and daughters-in-laws are going after family businesses now -- and it's only going to increase.

Soon the grumbling may become too loud for the Bush administration to ignore,

Leila Janah

So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.

So much of our business is driven by speed. Because of globalization, we have observed an intense pressure to reduce downtime and thus, increase overall productivity.

So much of business is done by the seat of the pants. So much is done by accident.

Sometimes when you mix a fabulous business with a more mundane one, the market values it as a more mundane business. And literally just separating the two enables the market to understand the values.

Teams are realizing that it's not their business to be in broadcasting.

Technology should fare real well, given all the business being done on the Internet right now. Those subject to the Internet, like a Sun Microsystems, those type of companies should have excellent earnings.

Tell somebody more about your business than just your name and address. List some services that you provide. If you're a dentist and your practice is made up of kids, get that across.

Ten years ago, a large percentage of business people weren't using e-mail or cell phones. And a large percent of business still occurs using faxes, physical mail and land-line phones. We think the same will be true of managing personal information.

Telstra seems to be favoring its own retail business while continuing to delay services needed by its wholesale customers to enable them to compete with Telstra's retail business,

Peter Cushing

Television is rather a frightening business. But I get all the relaxation I want from my collection of model soldiers.

Sometimes we only get one chance to connect with a prospective business who might be considering many different localities at the same time, we really wanted something that was memorable. Memorable hopefully in a positive way, and something that instantly tells a prospective business about the great things in our county.

John Varvatos

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.