Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

John Bell

When I was mixing the album I was just cheering it on, ... I was actually getting to put myself in a position of observation of listening to the band, watching it, experiencing it probably closer to a fan thing than I've ever had the ability to do, or that I've ever let myself do. And I was just like, yeah, George is getting it on. And that's what you want for anybody's performance.

Linda Kristiansen

We remain skeptical of Sears' ability to turn around its apparel business.

Patrick Stokes

We remain confident in our ability to consistently achieve annual double-digit earnings per share growth over the long-term, with a 12 percent average annualized target through 2004,

James Cornelius

We remain confident about Guidant's ability to rebuild ... market share. But that rebuilding will involve time, resolve and resources,

David Kang

We remain concerned about the company's ability to stem the continued decline in profitability and credit protection measures.

Adam Gollner

We respect Band Aid's ability to raise so much money for relief efforts, but their lyrics seem so misguided and inappropriate. Africa isn't a land 'where nothing ever grows' and 'no rain nor river flows.' And how are lines such as, 'Well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you' supposed to be helpful?

Sandra Witelson

We're going to need to be careful if, in the future, we use MRI brain scans as a measure of ability in any selection process.

Alan Foreman

We're starting to find that investors in particular are measuring their risks carefully and are not afraid to put their money to work at this time.

Charles Lee

We're going to take a careful look at the result to determine if there's any issue. I think that it raises a red flag. We have to look at that carefully to determine if there's something here.

Erik Autor

We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.

Niklas Savander

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

Hermann Hesse

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Alice Lichtenstein

What's really important is that we carefully look at what our lifestyle patterns are, our eating patterns are, make small changes and make sure those changes that we make can be maintained on a daily basis.

Jack Straw

We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there,

Jack Straw

We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there,

Jean Charest

We're going to carefully prepare this mission. It's not easy to go to a country like India where we don't have a presence.

Larry Dossey

The perceptions of passing time that we observe from our external clocks cause our internal clock to run faster. Hurry sickness is expressed as heart disease, high blood pressure, or depression of our immune function, leading to increased susceptibility to infection and cancer.

Mike Hill

There are clocks on there, I notice, but you still don't know what time it is.

Jimmie Johnson

He's been talking to me for seven or eight years about having an auction, but when you love something like he loves this business, it's really hard to let go. This is an amazing collection. It would take someone 10 years to get the variety of clocks that are here.

Jodi Mindell

We now know a great deal about adolescent sleep. Biological clocks shift by two hours after puberty. There are literally not enough hours in the night for them to get enough sleep.

Bob Woehrle

Our software allows agents to send out automatic e-greetings on birthdays, anniversary, the changing of the clocks twice a year. Remembering customers at times they would not expect you to remember them has a strong emotional appeal.

Bill Nye

Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a reasonable sense, the invention of clocks has had a greater effect on our lives than the invention of wheels. You can invent wheels relatively easily, if you live where trees fall over.

Joe Baker

From my perspective, knowing what we had to do and how it was supposed to go, I don't see any glitches. Obviously, the clocks and scoreboard were different and the music playing was a bit of a distraction. I'm sure I'll get some e-mails and phone calls tomorrow and I'll talk with the coaches, and if it makes sense to do it again, we'll do it again.

Tami McLaughlin

We really enjoy bringing old clocks back to life. These clocks often have a lot of sentimental value to their owners. Sometimes they got them from parents or relatives who are no longer living.

Bruce Lipton

If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

David Jones

When we finally decide on who our president is, and on the day when we realize the economy is so weak that that new president must cut taxes, and he can't do it because of a divided congress and all the animosity that comes out of this agonizingly long presidential election, the dollar's going to be in trouble.

Jeff Kleintop

What's interesting now is we're seeing a period where dividends are growing faster then earnings,

Louis Farrakhan

United we can solve our problems and divided we have nothing.

Masatoshi Kikuchi

With the Internet, the information divide between professional traders and individual investors has become very small.

Robert Brusca

We're getting some very good spending going into the first quarter. It's interesting that while there is spending optimism, consumers are still clearly divided into two main categories -- those with lots of money and those that are hurting. That's why these monthly results have shown so much irregularity.

Chief Joseph

My people were divided about surrendering.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

Piero Fassino

There are conditions to create a government and to govern, even if the country is divided in two.

Bruce Gordon

We strongly oppose the Nebraska law that divides the Omaha public schools along racial lines. The Supreme Court ruled those 52 years ago that separate but equal schools result in inequality and poor education for minority children. We will use every advocacy tool, including legal, at our disposal to fight this unconstitutional law.

Kathy Griffin

We're so used to seeing celebrities being driven around in limos. I can go to an In-N-Out Burger whenever I want, and no one takes my picture.

Harvey Rosenfield

What we're seeing is a tremendous increase in the number of complaints and horror stories, including fatalities, associated with the rush to corporate, profit driven health care in our country.

Joe Tracy

United Tote is the technology provider for many of the premier racing facilities in the world. These customers understand what's needed to succeed in today's technology driven business climate.

John Caldwell

With the increased focus on the potential of an economic slowdown, driven by the higher energy prices, anything that comes out of the economic data to either support or refute that is going to be key.

Margaret Beckett

We face a timetable that is driven by nature, science and by the predicted effect of climate change on our world, not by our own negotiating processes.

Justin Smirk

We're being bounced around as robust crude supplies take the cream off a market driven up by geo-political concerns.

Alain Resnais

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

Chloe Sevigny

I'm not the greediest person. Of course, I work in a business where that's all relative and there's a lot of money to be made. I think I'm satisfied making as much as I have and I don't feel particularly driven to have more.

Chiang Kai-shek

We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

Dee Bradley Baker

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

Larry Lucchino

Tom Werner said this is a happy day for the Red Sox, and I agree. We?re a stronger, more effective and bolder front office.

Jamie Pollard

We're making a change in the leadership of the men's basketball program effective immediately.

Billy Hunter

We remain convinced that the NBA does not have the right to unilaterally create new ways to punish teams that want to improve by spending on player salaries. The effect of this decision is to continue to undermine player confidence in the NBA's administration of our collective bargaining agreement.

Romeo Serra

We respect the position of the CBCP in regard to the mining issue although we believe that the revitalization of the mining industry presents as a major viable alternative in the effective abatement of poverty in Mindanao.

Erik Autor

We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.

Steven Blum

What we're most proud of is are the young men and women that are sitting at these tables ... that are proof positive that this program is the most effective program in the nation when it comes to saving the next greatest generation. We will stay behind you all the way. You have a life partner for anything you want to do for the rest of your life with the National Guard.

Maret Traber

What this clearly shows is that to perform their vital roles, vitamins C and E work together. They have a synergistic effect that will not be gained just by intake of one or the other, and adequate levels of these nutrients is especially important for people who smoke.

Anthony Chan

When we exclude the effects of the recent hurricanes, we have to come away with the conclusion that despite higher energy prices and a battery of hurricanes, the job market is not doing all that bad.

H. Hunt

We've basically been in one long recession that started in the fall of 2000,

Cedric Redmond

When we were going into the locker room at halftime, we heard some fans saying that we're going to fall apart in the second half. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen.

Becky Carlson

When we went to the half-court trap it bothered them and we picked up our defensive intensity. We were able to get some steals. We kept running the offense and got great shots, sometimes they just didn't fall for us but we had a good stretch at the end of the quarter.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

R. Robinson

We're getting to a crisis point. Facilities will start falling apart.

Phil Mishler

We're going to start with the defensive end and let the other parts fall where they may. You can always give 100 percent on defense.

Don Baylor

We're going to rise or fall as a state together.

John Peterson

We're going to need to get some shots to fall if we want to win against Big Timber. The girls showed the intensity we need in the fourth quarter today, but we need that all the time.

Michael Barrett

We're going to need a miracle now to stay in this thing. I believe in those, but it's definitely frustrating realizing how good of a team we have and how we've fallen short.

Geoffrey Robertson

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin , ... The Justice Game.

Nick Montepara

When we were thinking this through, the emphasis was on what solutions we could enable that would allow us to provide our customers with greater convenience and greater comfort when they?re shopping our stores. We spent a lot of time working with the various businesses before we even touched the technology because I felt it was important not to get confused by any preconceived limitations of what technology can do.

Patrick Baker

When we defend well and create opportunities on offense, that's really our recipe for success. Once again we had great activity and pressure on the ball. We matured a little bit tonight, we had a greater sense of gamesmanship and clock management toward the end. We saw some good things from the whole team.

Jane Lubchenco

What has become clear is that if society wants to avoid future disasters, it should do two things ? prevent even greater disruption to the climate system and prepare for the climate changes already set in motion. There is urgency on both fronts, reducing emissions and preparing to adapt.

Michael Dell

We believe we're doing so to a much greater degree than anyone else in our industry, and it is already a compelling difference in winning and retaining customers of all types.

Carlo Ancelotti

We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with greater freedom and relaxation.

Glenn Tipton

We're going to maintain our friendship with Ripper. He's a great guy, in fact he sent us an email yesterday, saying he agrees with the decision, you know, because he is a big Priest fan as well, like we all are in a way. He is such an incredible vocalist he is bound to go on to greater success in his own right. Once people know he's free I'm sure he'll be in demand.

Francis Grimke

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

Fauzi Ichsan

Unless the government really accelerates spending, there will be no improvement in the economy. We had hoped that the government could really play a greater role this year.

Grant Woods

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Charlie Munger

there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.

Nathan Myhrvold

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

Madeleine Albright

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

William Shakespeare

Nor age so eat up my invention.

Webster Thompson

We're looking for the next blockbuster new product. And visitors to http://www.gardenweasel.com can now submit their invention to us to consider taking it to the retail marketplace.

Benjamin Haydon

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Carolyn Wells

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Jeret Peterson

When we were all down and out, having the worst time of our lives -- we were cold and we were miserable -- Emily was bawling, but she still had a smile on her face. Emily is one of the most positive people I know.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

David Meyer

We remember those who gave their lives and lost their lives. We also remember those touched by recent tragedy.

Stephanie Contreras

We're spending a lot more tax dollars and we're wasting lives because we're not treating them early enough to keep them from deteriorating.

Carl Honore

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

Diane Lane

We're so blessed with our pastor and his wife. They live their lives in a way we're supposed to, in their caring for one another and having a focus on God.

Dennis Thompson

We're going to do what it takes to serve these children, ... We're going to try to make a very chaotic period in their lives as transitional as possible.

Kenny Troutt

That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.

Andrea Salinas

When we have the Duval County Fair, they bring a lot of livestock into the city. That falls into a nuisance because it is affecting the public health, because the smell is so bad.

Zhang Mao

We've appointed ombudsmen to check implementation of these measures in various hospitals.

Andrew Shue

When I was in high school... I had to measure up to my older brother, who is an Eagle Scout. And that's not a good thing.

Sandra Witelson

We're going to need to be careful if, in the future, we use MRI brain scans as a measure of ability in any selection process.

Brian Rush

We're going to find out where we measure up. We feel like we've worked hard this year. We think if we get a chance to be in the game, we'll make things happen. That's what we are looking to do. We know they're going to bring their A-game and we're going to bring our A-game, and we'll see who the better dog is.

Chris Cairns

When we get a top side we are pretty good and we will have a chance to measure ourselves in the next six months when we play against sides such as Australia. Potentially we remain a very good side.

William Teague

We would see 50 or more waves. It turned out that during one of these periods of recording, the biggest crest-peak wave that we measured was 91 feet.

Brandon Lloyd

We grew up a lot today. But the way we're going to measure our growth is how we play next week (at Tennessee). We've had strong practices every week and finally we're able to carry it over to the game.

Fernando Ferrer

We can do better than a mayor who says he doesn't think many people make the minimum wage. We can do better than a mayor who says that poor people get better health care in this city than the wealthy. I believe that hope and opportunity have to be present in equal measure on every block, on every street in every neighborhood in every borough of our city.

Daniel Andrews

We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.

Jay Jacobs

We've asked the facilities division to give us some information, what they think is reasonable that we could expect this to cost.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

Paul Dee

We're going to talk about all reasonable possibilities that deal with safety for the players, students and fans. The conference is very concerned about Wilma, and we know we can't sit around here until Friday to make a decision.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Kent Beck

People are looking for software development that actually does something useful... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.

Lydia Parnes

What we're looking for is to have small businesses apply standards that are reasonable in light of the information that they're storing. There's no business around that would leave a stack of money on a table, for people to just walk in and take. What we're really saying is that information about consumers, about your customers, is the new currency.

Ken Bacon

We would take almost any reasonable action before reaching a point of having to make a decision about destroying an American plane over American air space.

Bob Phillips

What's stunning about their ability to raise reasonable doubt there is that the facts clearly show that he intentionally slit her throat despite his jailhouse confession to the contrary. Somehow Brittain and Williams raised enough reasonable doubt on that question to avoid the needle.

Minoru Tada

U.S. stocks finally appear to be bottoming out, and the yen is coming back to reasonable levels for Japanese exporters. I'd say that's a pretty good signal to buy.

Ian Shepherdson

We remain relatively optimistic about the housing market, but we do accept that activity fell sharply in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11,

David Stern

We're getting to a place where we have to make a decision relatively soon. I would hope by the end of next week we'll have something to say.

Marshall Acuff

We're going to get to a point where the market is going to stabilize. Keep in mind that really what's going on is that we're taking excess out of the market, and we're doing it in a relatively orderly fashion. In the long term, I think this is very healthy for the overall market. I would call it a period of rebalancing.

David Yalof

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

Maajid Nawaz

What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.

Keith Nicholls

Unless Riley really messes up something - given relatively good economic times, given the lack of scandal, given the fact that all of the tax business is in the past - it's hard for me to imagine how Riley could blow it.

Tom Smith

Work with the people to find things that would be creative that would maybe prevent damage. Particularly for people that are really on the periphery of the flood area that could maybe for relatively small investment could do improvements that would prevent flooding.

Richard Katz

With the large clinical trials, the bleeding problems have turned out to be relatively small, and certainly worth it for the patient,

Matt Brown

We're hoping to attract the 25-and-up demographic with relatively well-known entertainment but it doesn't always work out that way. Upstairs, we're aiming for a more mature high-end clientele that wants a premium experience.

Charles Fuller

We're so excited to serve customers here in Fayetteville and the surrounding communities, ... With the store's updated design, great merchandise assortment, services and our remarkable team of associates, we will be able to provide an outstanding and even more convenient shopping experience for our customers. We're inviting everyone to come and celebrate with us.

David Coulthard

What's remarkable is not that they are having a difficult year this year, but how incredible their performance was for five straight years. They redefined Formula One,

David Kelly

What's remarkable is how little the statement changed. The one thing that is important is that the Fed has always, over the past few years, tipped its hand. But they have still not indicated that they are close to ending their tightening.

Deepto Chakrabarty

What's remarkable here is this process of planet formation, which we associate with the birth of stars, seems to also be able to occur at the end of the stellar lifetime, sort of a renaissance of the system, in some sense.

Helen Thomas

United Press International is a great news agency. It has made a remarkable mark in the annals of American journalism and has left a superb legacy for future journalists. I wish the new owners all the best, great stories and happy landings.

Craig Mathias

Working with multiple data inputs presents significant engineering challenges, and the engineers who developed MIMO did a remarkable job addressing them.

Kris Kristofferson

Working with Dakota's not exactly like working with a kid. She's a remarkable actor. ... Bette Davis was probably like that when she was a little girl, and I think she'll amaze us for years.

Jack Greenberg

We extended our considerable lead internationally and achieved a remarkable turnaround in our U.S. business,

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Amy Fisher

When I was a child, I played in trees a lot, ... I'm very attached to trees and trees being kind of strong and providing a source of comfort and cleaning the air and being homes for animals.

John Hawthorne

What we're looking at used to be a huge forest, like you see across the way. The forest is completely wiped out. Hundred year old trees that were in here are gone. It took everything, it just took everything.

Stephen Kintner

Whenever someone removes trees without a permit and things like that, they have to pay fees.

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

John Hughs

We're going to have to go in and rebuild it from the ground up because it went to seed before we got it. There are literally trees and shrubs growing up in the greens, and it's going to take a lot of work and money to get it back into shape.

David Coulthard

We face the biggest risk here of any circuit we race on. The danger isn't so much hitting the tyre barriers as hitting another car that has already spun. Visibility is already an issue and that adds to the risk. The spray does not clear. The trees hold the moisture. You cannot see a thing in the spray.

Kathleen Blanco

The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.

Mike Conley

There are some beautiful oak trees on that road. I would hate to see those destroyed.

Paula Clark

We're seeing all kinds of boxes, cardboard, bags, wrapping paper and packaging materials, and soon we'll see an increase in yard waste when people start taking their Christmas trees down. We have an influx of garbage every Christmas. Our truck drivers are hauling the containers as fast as they can.

Dale Jr

We bounced off a lot of things and it just continued to drive great. The wheels were still straight, and everything was still going in the right direction.

William Shakespeare

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.

Charlize Theron

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

William Shakespeare

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

Brene Brown

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Bertolt Brecht

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Bayard Rustin

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Barbara Corcoran

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.