Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yuri Milner

I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.

Wendy Kopp

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

Vonda Shepard

My mom always wanted to go to Maryland to live there. Baltimore, actually. She had a best friend who lived there. She kept saying that she was going to move there and make that her home, but she only made it halfway across the country and got stuck in Iowa.

Vonda Shepard

I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the crib and sing in the crib all night long. My crib would roll across the floor in the middle of the night. Finally, my father nailed its legs to the floor.

Billy Graham

I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.

Colin Greenwood

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

Evangeline Lilly

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

Evangeline Lilly

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

Bradley Byrne

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

Donald Trump

We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

Alice Walker

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Tim Howard

When I see someone wearing fur, I just want to sit them down in front of one of PETA's videos and show them just how badly animals suffer for this supposed fabric that no one needs.

Lulu

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

Stefano Pessina

I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong.

Stanley Elkin

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Dave Stephens

We didn't play with heart and that is especially disappointing on our home floor. We have to question how badly we wanted it. Right now, we are not doing the little things that we need to do to be successful.

Rick Beene

We didn't play too badly in the first half, it's just that the other team shot the ball really well.

Stephen McClellan

We are concerned primarily with the industry factors and have become more cautious on the sector." ()

Dick Skrinjar

We recognize the need to be cautious and fiscally conservative to put Pittsburgh on the right track.

Xun Zi

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Kurt Barnard

Wal-Mart's news is a very big deal. There's no doubt that a significant number of consumers are shopping paycheck to paycheck. Most are also waiting for price reductions. So saying that the consumer is still cautious is a good indicator that the holiday season will only be moderately better than last year.

Kurt Barnard

Wal-Mart's news is a very big deal, ... There's no doubt that a significant number of consumers are shopping paycheck to paycheck. Most are also waiting for price reductions because they know that the support of another tax rebate or tax reduction is unlikely. So saying that the consumer is still cautious is a good indicator that the holiday season will only be moderately better than last year.

Paula Creamer

When I leave the country, I'm very, very cautious about what I eat and drink. No vegetables, no fruit.

Keith Bowman

Today's fall. . . is as much about profit taking as it is to do with the cautious outlook statement.

Maria Garcia

We'll need to be cautious with the potential for lightning, but with the moisture maybe it'll all even out.

Jason Kantor

We remain cautious until we see significant evidence of accelerating sales, operational and commercial execution, and improved long-term visibility on sales and earnings growth.

Vivek Wadhwa

My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You'll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.

Big Sean

Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

Citium Zeno

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Trent Reznor

I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

Big Sean

It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.

John Bolton

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

Nico Mirallegro

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.

Tim Wheeler

There are a whole lot of people in town who would prefer we return to a local, independent flavor and not be overrun by chain businesses.

John Larkin

There is a supply chain gap there we will try to fill,

Brian Koslow

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Curtis Jackson

Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.'

Phyllis Schlafly

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

Alan Knight

While we received comments from major CSR and SRI groups--for whom this is an important issue--we did not receive comments from any of the organizations focused on shareholder activism. Of course the standard is being published as an exposure draft, so we are still looking for comments and will be piloting it to seek feedback over the next 12 or more months.

Walter Winnitzki

You have Taiwan Semi saying that future orders look weak and that's indicative of a lot of companies. You just had Sun Microsystems return to profitability, but then take it back for the next quarter. All these comments show that any tech recovery is probably pushed back until 2003.

Billy Knight

We'll wait until the experts can tell us, but there's no comments about any speculating at all that I'm going to do,

Lee Hamilton

We had a marvelous meeting with the president, ... The president's comments were very candid, very forthcoming and he was interested in what we had to say.

Julie Zawisza

We will review the public comments as soon as practicable and, taking those comments into account, decide how to proceed.

Randy Beaulaurier

We've gotten lots of good comments about the copper roof.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Pete Seeger

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Scott Cromwell

We played with them for about a half a quarter.

Ron Hop

We played a much better second half than they did.

Mark Oline

We probably won't know how significant their progress is until the second half of the year.

Larry Coker

We probably used him too much. I think we probably should have rested him more in the first half because I thought he got a little tired in the second half.

Meghan Markle

When I get ready to go out, it's half hour and we're out of the door. I don't want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.

David Bonior

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

Cindy Clough

We still have the same problems we had 30 years ago.

Alfred Eder

Tomorrow our biathletes will have a lot of problems because of this situation. But it is important that they run.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Jim Clarke

Unfortunately, that's when you'll start seeing problems with a lot of the grasses.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field. The team has to get through 11 people.

John McMillan

The problems are more severe than they thought.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field, ... The team has to get through 11 people.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

David Nicholson

The merchandising is where the real profits are made,

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Sam Bodman

There's no way that we would support a windfall profits tax,

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Nancy Bray

When you work in retail long enough, you get a vibe off people. We all got that vibe off of him.

Richard Redniss

We're not going to have, post-9-11, at this location, retail uses.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Craig Cole

Those are the type of retail tenants we work with.

Rich Repetto

We're seeing a significant retail component. This isn't an IPO, but that's the way it's acting.

Peter Drucker

Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Warren Jenson

We have seen some softness in retail in October,

Eric Larson

This really spearheads them into the conventional retail side of the business, in a big way.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Chris Murray

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Rob Spear

It's unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

Shaojing Tong

I don't see how it will revive sales dramatically.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Tamara Tunie

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Sandrine Bonnaire

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Chen Guangbiao

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

David Quammen

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