Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are only certain windows, certain periods of time when executives can trade stocks and exercise options.

There are times when we have to do certain things to help him defensively but the flip side of that is he's done so much for our team that we need him on the floor, ... We live with the defensive deficiencies that may come about because of his lack of size. He more than makes up for that with a big, big heart and being a competitor the way he is.

There are people who only play when the jackpot reaches a certain level. The magic number is usually $100 million -- $200 million is a whole other level.

There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There's a certain process that you have to go through to say goodbye. That fire doesn't get extinguished. You have to put a gun to it.

Laura Miller

If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.

Justin Timberlake

The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. There's a certain tempo to it, just like in music.

Jules Verne

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

We're glad we have the money this year. We certainly hope to get more money next year.

Kara Lawson

We're looking at this as a must-win. We're looking at this as the only game left and we certainly hope it's the only game left. We don't want to fall into the trap of saying you've got two to win one. ... We know they didn't win 26 games because they laid down and quit, or because they laid down and died. So I expect it to be, if we are to win, our toughest win of the season.

We're looking at Mississippi firms. They are certainly one being considered.

Richard Blumenthal

We're concerned about the extension of Microsoft's monopoly on certain products by using restraints on competition and tying and leveraging with respect to other products,

We're just going to keep working on this as it evolves. We certainly want to make sure we continue to operate.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

Like any good cook, you go back in the kitchen and you revamp your recipe and you take what you have on hand and you still make up something pretty good. And I think after spending the last two months with the women on our team, I think that with certainty we can whip up something pretty good.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

John Connolly

Like everyone else, he has things to prove to make the side, but I think he is one of Australia's great players and at the moment we only have two or three certain selections in the team.

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certainty when a pandemic virus will emerge.

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Right now, Manchester has got a really good story to tell, and it's certainly reflected in the numbers, in the survey, as far as office space goes.

Greg Thomas

Right now I'd say it's not necessarily a weird bug, but it certainly could be any number of typical respiratory organisms. We have some tests pending.

Right now, for certain destinations in Mexico, you don't need a passport, and that's going to change.

People were, certainly in the first couple of months, very cautious, and they are less so now. So it took people time to get past whether they were willing to say things.

Rob Portman

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.