Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Miller

Services are an elusive concept that require a qualitative judgment.

John Long

Society won't get any less litigious. Years ago we had to sell the concept to sell our plans. People are more receptive to them today.

Fidel Castro

That's a hard lesson for those whose false pride and erroneous concepts have driven them not to respond, even late, to our offer,

The Internet as a tool means all the leading retailers are going to be on the Internet in the next couple of years. The pure selling concept over the Internet has proven not to work and the pure plays are gong to be surpassed by traditional retailers.

The Fed has identified consumer confidence as the most important concept right now. They are extremely worried that the problems in the stock market and the weakness in the manufacturing sector will lead to pessimism and lower spending.

Once they started to make shots, we started pressing and we weren't staying with our concepts offensively, we got away from that. We called a couple timeouts and tried to tell them to stay with what got them here. It didn't matter, Twin Falls was amazing.

Nothing significant has really changed. We have lots of concepts in development, some will get green-lit and some won't.

Ray Ozzie

In its simplest form, the clipboard enabled the user to simply grasp the concept of moving a copy of the information from one application to another. Simply stated, I'd like to extend the clipboard user model to the web.

in a link between a multi-ethnic concept and economic prosperity.

Joshua Bell

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.

Nia Vardalos

I liked the title, and I wanted to explore the concept of this contrived holiday and what happens when romance is forced on us.

Danny Meyer

I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.

No matter what your guest satisfaction surveys say even if satisfaction is in the stratosphere it doesn't matter. Research doesn't support the concept that customer satisfaction predicts growth.

There's a danger of exploitation when you get the galleries and museums involved and it's being sensationalized. I don't feel that's what Arline is doing with this show at all. This population is isolated. They are outside the mainstream, but the whole point of this show is to create a bridge, which sort of flies in the face of the whole concept of outsider art.

Maria Menounos

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

There's no direct reporting happening. Our concept of what's topical is a little more glacial.

James Gray

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

Andy Serkis

I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein's descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches.

What we are showing with this concept is that a full utility truck that can pull a horse trailer and take all your construction equipment, can also be environmentally friendly and sustainable and good for our environment and good for American energy independence.

What a relief. It's been so hard getting people to understand what we were trying to do and understanding the concepts of this.

We copied some of their tactics, especially the concept of bundling small contributions.

This is the only piece in the show that doesn't have a slide in it. In some ways, it's the most conceptual piece in the exhibition.

I preach the team concept and I get on her for not taking a little more shots. I'm taking my word back on the team concept. I thought there were times where she didn't shoot enough. But that's her. She wants everyone to be involved in the game.

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.

Neal Boortz

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.

It has been my experience that what perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level concepts of object-oriented programming

If our option is to sell singles rather than to have them stolen, then we'll sell a track at a time. The important thing is to reinstate the concept that this property deserves compensation.

I don't know if he gets the concept of a teammate or if he grasps that. People have tried to help him out. You've got to give him some leeway for language but at some point (you realize) he does speak more than he lets on. So at that point, you start to think he's making that choice.

Winston Churchill

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

Justine Bateman

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

Instead of the outdoor kitchen being an afterthought, it is part of the conceptual process from the very beginning.

In recent months we have seen a number of announcements and proof of concept demonstrations from major players in the mobile and consumer electronics markets that tie the consumer's mobile devices to the home network.

Clipper could also support exploration of the Moon. The concept could even be aimed at going much further.