Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think commercial property owners are going to be very surprised by (this) increase in appraised values, particularly since in most areas, rental rates have not increased by the same percentage that the appraised values have increased.

Paul Wolfowitz

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

Alex Honnold

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

Susan Sontag

Naive or commercial or merely utilitarian photography is no different in kind from photography as practiced by the most gifted professionals,

National companies want to be where, when you've got your checkbook out, you see their signs. This is very typical for a mall area. And Oneida Street is the commercial hub of our area.

Marco Tempest

My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

Little by little, the commercial community has seen that the Hispanic community has the possibility of generating sales for them.

Edmund Burke

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

Part of it is to do with commercial reasons, trying to get further revenue generated from China.

Suranga Chandratillake

Today, the way the system works, when you sign up to provide your content for the system, you sign off that your content will be downloaded and replicated. We do have a DRM, but we are keeping it for more commercial content.

We know this is a very limited contamination. We are trying to convince our trade partners to return to normal commercial relations.

David Mason

Unlike a commercial transaction where if something goes wrong you can fix it, you can't undo elections, ... The cost of making a mistake here is a lot greater.

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

Rick Rubin

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

Paul Di Filippo

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

Philipp Meyer

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

Whether it's for commercial or research purposes, it should not be happening,

We're definitely hearing from recreational and commercial divers who are opposed to this.

We're declaring ourselves ready as a platform for commercial adoption.

We don't see this as commercial versus open source. More people are using the two together.

Most commercial products that contain organic molecules possess at least one carbon-carbon double bond, or if one is not present, it is likely that an olefin was used in its preparation. This being the case, the potential applications of olefin metathesis are endless.

MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

The American marketplace is one conditioned by commercial movies, and the American moviegoer is in the greatest part a commercial moviegoer. They don't have much patience for high end.

We are in the phase of commercial discussions.

We are, in effect, that commercial manifestation of Web services,

Drake Bell

When I was 5, I did a commercial for Whirlpool sitting on a tree stump eating a popsicle that dripped all over my clothes.

We are waiting to see what the government really intends to do with MAS ... We do intend to talk further with them. We also talked to them about a possible commercial cooperation and we just have to see how it goes from there.

John Burnside

We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.

Gaby Hoffmann

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

Irene Khan

The latest evidence shows how the US administration is manipulating commercial arrangements in order to be able to transfer people in violation of international law.

The light commercial vehicle (LCV) segment has come in strongly at 15458 units, representing an increase of 23,1% over January 2005, and 22,4% over last month. This indicates that the stock problems experienced during January 2006 have been partially eased.

Alison Goldfrapp

An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.

All the defense companies -- with very few exceptions -- have been doing extremely well with mostly double-digit earnings growth. And it's not just the military side, it's the commercial side as well. We're in the early stages of a maybe five-year up cycle.