Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Holman

We've asked management that question (when a new contract would be imposed) and they haven't given us an answer. It could be immediately or they could use it for additional leverage at the bargaining table.

Chuck Mulloy

We're making changes to our roadmap for processors in 2001 in order to provide some additional memory options for the low-cost platform for Pentium 4-based systems for the mainstream market.

Mitch Kupchak

We're sorry to have to let Slava go even though it was unlikely that he would've been able to play the rest of the season because of his injury. He's been a positive addition to us for six years, including helping us win two championships. We thank him for his contributions and wish him well.

John Metcalf

We're going to respond to the Gulf within 72 hours. After a disaster, if you can get people rescued within 72 hours; they are far better off as far as getting them rescued without additional injury or illness or loss of life.

David Stout

We're going to need very large volumes of flu vaccine for the pandemic. Having access to this additional capacity will be a big benefit for us.

Michael Carliner

We're going to have a lot of additional demand for materials, both in the cleanup process and the repair process and going forward in rebuilding.

Mike Benson

When we built the site for Oceanic Airlines, we wanted to do something that was different from all the other TV show sites. What we discovered was that by creating additional content for this show, we could create a marketing tool that would have fans more invested in the program, and if it was cool they'd share with their friends.

Tom Pardalis

What a great addition to the program he has been. Our weakness as a team is shooting and he brings a shooter to this team.

Winston Damarillo

We wrapped all these technologies into a common platform. We took all the open source pieces, version-managed them, tested them and integrated them. Then we wrote additional technologies, such as the deployment kernel and a management console, to complete the picture.

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

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,

Judy Gresser

What he has done is created a permanent source of funding for these agencies. The organizations he has named in the fund can count on receiving an annual check from now until forever.

Laura Bush

We're going to have the first one, and then we'll see how it goes. We started the Texas Book Festival six years ago in Austin, and it's become institutionalized as an annual event at the Texas capitol. So I expect this will be very successful here.

Michelle Harutunian

United Way funding is vital to Harvest Texarkana's daily operations, being one of the few nonprofits that does not receive government funding on an annual basis. We are totally reliant on United Way dollars, profits from various fund-raisers and donations from area businesses, churches and community groups and individuals.

Catherine Marquette

United for D.C. is excited to begin the third annual United Community Grants cycle. Last year alone, United for D.C. distributed almost $85,000 in grants to six local organizations, assisting established groups expand their urban soccer programming and helping new organizations create inner-city programs. We look forward to receiving another round of quality applications this cycle.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.

Jim Owen

We're expecting the 2005 annual numbers to show an investment nationally of more than $4.8 billion. As recently as 1999, that number was $2.9 billion.

Jen Schlegel

We?re hoping next year?s event will involve even more community groups. We?re hoping this will be an annual source of pride and goodwill.

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.

Josie Bissett

When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

Alex Coletti

We're going to see these mountains and it's going to be gorgeous. You can get more creative visually because you want to do it justice.

Kathryn Hahn

And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way.

Jan Chovanec

When we anticipate guests? needs, when we are flexible, when we are creative and we create a sense of privacy, all those five-star ratings will come.

Brian Graden

When we first uncovered the creative genius of the underground skateboard mentality of 'Jackass,' we knew it would resonate with our young adult audience,

Aaron McGruder

We wrote the script, we did a six-minute presentation, and then it died. Fox wanted a sitcom with an 'A story' and a 'B story,' and there were just very rigid creative rules that work on some shows and don't work on others.

Tom O'Neill

What Hollywood has done is push the responsibility for funding movies onto the creative people who make them.

Anne Sweeney

What hasn't he done for prime time is more the question. I think he has brought a strong new creative spirit and the wonderful ability to take chances back to network prime-time television.

Nandan Nilekani

We're going to showcase the arrival of the global Indian entrepreneur.

Kavita Ramdas

I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.

Greg Holland

What we're seeing right now in global climate temperature is a signature of climate change. The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases.

Marc Levesque

What we're seeing in terms of currency movements - and it will probably continue at least over the near-term - is a shift in global monetary policy expectations. There's a gearing-down of expectations for Fed tightening, coupled with increased tightening expectations elsewhere.

Jim Adams

What has happened is that everyone has accepted that over time this is going to become a global issue and in that context (efforts have) been ratcheted up a level,

Judith Curry

We found no long-term trend in things like wind shear. There's a lot of year-to-year variability, but there's no global trend. In any given year, it's different for each ocean.

Salvation Army

We bless this noble and patriotic approach and we call on all armed groups to join the Islamic Salvation Army in the truce and in a global reconciliation solution to end bloodshed in Algeria,

John Surma

We benefited from a positive global economic market and there is a positive environment at least through mid-year. We intend to operate as near to full capacity as we can in the second quarter.

David Dyer

We believe this transaction is a validation of the brand and the global opportunities that lie ahead.

Chris Killingstad

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

Jeffrey Immelt

We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excited about how well GE is positioned for the future,

Ralph Norris

We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.

Edgar Bronfman

We remain focused on building on the momentum in all of our businesses to produce strong quarterly results, and I am confident that we will meet our growth targets for this fiscal year.

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

Bruce Wood

We remain confident that our continued strategic focus on profitable branded growth will positively impact fiscal 2007 and beyond.

Eric Nicoli

We remain confident that digital music will return the industry to growth in due course.

Alex Yemenidjian

We remain confident of our growth outlook for the second half of 2001 and all of 2002.

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

Dave Minton

We're meeting an important need by offering our high-end, comprehensive real estate services to clients north of the river, which is the fastest growing area in Southwest Florida. This convenient location will benefit home buyers, sellers, commercial clients, builders and developers.

Ron Dittemore

We're going to pause and reflect upon the crew of Columbia, their lives, their contributions, their memory, and although we cannot stop our investigation and the recovery effort, we will pause in this location to take the time to reflect upon their lives, their sacrifice. It's a day of remembering. It's a day of remembering our friends, and for us it's a day of mourning.

Colleen Stogsdill

When we first walked in there to eat, we fell in love with it. We've been married for 20 years and we'd always wanted to own a restaurant. It had a good location and we live in Canby so that made it really nice.

Fernando Meirelles

When we first saw the locations we would be using, we decided to use a different visual approach to each part of the story,

Gary Hines

What a great day for golf, we had a slight breeze and tough enough hole locations to challenge most everybody that teed it up today,

William Aila

What he's doing is making it clear ... that this (disclosing the location of the items) is what he cannot commit to in the Hawaiian mediation process.

Vincent Chase

We found that of 65 locations with nuclear power plants only a third have gone through the exercise to determine if they are meeting security standards.

Joseph Roth

We go where the location works for our customers and our store operations. We were not lured. We go where the location is attractive. If we wanted to go to places where things were free, we would be somewhere else. . . . If we can secure some assistance from a local municipality, we are always welcome to it, but it does not determine where within the market we go.

Mark Schweiker

We are getting viewed as one of the hot locations in the world, and we've hosted these massive events like Live 8 and the Republican Convention. This is a logical step to take to take a big step and show that we're a proud and solid community.

Joe Posnanski

When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

Kathleen Blanco

We respect the work you have done. You have been in our prayers. ... It grieves my soul to say that you're coming back to a Louisiana that is not whole. ... There is a lot of work to do, but we are up to the task.

Joe Browne

We're going to take into account the status of the relief and rescue efforts in Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast and apply league policies and precedents in as much of an extent as possible. NFL teams play their games outside their home stadiums either in another NFL city or in a city in their home territory. There is no precedent for playing any games in a non-NFL city.

Michael Brown

We're going to move an army of people down there to help Mississippi and Louisiana however we can.

Mike Tranghese

When we began to look at Notre Dame, Marquette, DePaul, Louisville and Cincinnati as well as those schools located in the Northeast, we were also trying to not have people do even more travel,

Elaine Lacy

We found that a huge percentage of the Latinos living in Louisiana and Mississippi are still homeless. They encounter a variety of problems including bugs, mold, skin problems and not getting paid for jobs.

Jim Calhoun

What Louisville needed late in the game was experience. That's what we had, some guys coming down the stretch who know what to do. We turned our defense up in the last 4 1/2 minutes of the game, we took care of the ball, took good shots and made good decisions. This was a grind-it-out game.

Carlos Queiroz

Unfortunately Louis is out of the game because yesterday he complained of some pain in his hamstring,

J. C. Watts

We're doing it on a case-by-case basis. We'll be happy to be of service to any Louisiana or Mississippi student displaced as a result of the hurricane,

Roger Ferris

We've basically been flat-lining those items over the past few years.

Kirk Salvo

We've always had kids from all over come here. This program has been a magnet for good wrestlers from around the state, but our link with the Navy Juniors program has been pretty good for us the past few years.

Rev. Donaldson

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Tyrone Marshall

We're more aware of each other now. Guys are looking out for each other. We're doing more things together. That definitely relieves some of the stress and heartache that we've been having over the past couple of weeks. Being able to come out here and play soccer is a step in the right direction. Doug is still in our minds and our hearts.

Aaron Bender

We're missing some of the veteran studs we had in lineup in years past, but we're looking forward to another good season.

Bill Lovette

We're making this investment to help meet continued, strong demand for refrigerated and pre-cooked bacon. The project is another example of the technology and food safety improvements we've initiated to position our processed meats business for future growth. For example, we've invested almost $15 million in our deli meats plant in Buffalo, N.Y., over the past two years.

Jerry Cantrell

We're making it up as we go along. It's what we always did in the past. We're writing the book as we live it. We feel confident that we will have a good time and that it's something that will live up to the same level. It's an exploratory thing, and we're just having fun with it. We'd like to go out and play for the people that supported us and love the music as much as we have all these years. We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend.

Rick Anderson

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

Rachel Elkins

When it came down to it, there were three teams in the running for second place. The percentage of individual wins for Matt and Josh were higher so they took second.

Gregg Laskoski

You don't know with 100 percent certainty that you'll be coming back to the home you left. So you should take essential papers, insurance policies, both home and auto, and any other irreplaceable items, including family photos. Keep them in an appropriate watertight container.

Chris Faircloth

We're more consistent on our assignments. We run our routes better. Still, we're not at the completion percentage we'd like to be. What we are happy about is people have to play us in the pass, which really helps our running game.

Chris Killingstad

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

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,

Phil Forest

We're spending more time on our computers. Even though television viewing is up, there is still a percentage that they're losing. If they put programs on the Internet, they can capture more of the audience. That's one of the key factors driving the networks.

Dan Niles

We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent more PCs in the second half versus the first half. People are getting ready in anticipation of a much stronger second half of the year.

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.

Bill Smith

We're going to pay it one way or another. We think paying based on what the actual costs are over a 5 percent difference is a good way to do this. It's not that we're unconcerned; it's just the price of doing business.

Dan Glickman

We're spending today, depending upon which agency of government, significantly more money on fire preparedness and treatment than we were spending in 1993, ... I think the real issue is that we have a situation that has been unparalleled in the last 50 years right now, and that has to do with what I call 'the perfect storm' phenomenon of weather and fuel loads.

Colin Trevorrow

We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

Christina Lopez

We're going to stay busy. To me, it's a perfect opportunity to do something fun with the kids.

Lewis Maltby

What we're seeing is employers who are trying to find out people who might be sick in the future, who might run up the company's medical bills, and (efforts) to screen them out, even though the company knows they can do the job perfectly well.

Ed Goren

When we began to consider the type of play-by-play announcer that we wanted to lead our BCS coverage, we knew we needed someone that would look at this as something more than a job, and for that, we didn't have to look very far. Thom's passion and enthusiasm for college football, combined with his big-game voice, made him the perfect choice. I am positive that college football fans from coast-to-coast will enjoy listening to him next January.

Nathaniel Brown

When we do a content deal we have a rough idea of how many new subscribers it might attract. But mostly we?re committed to providing subscribers and potential subscribers with the kind of program they can?t find anywhere else, and Bob Dylan?s new show is a perfect example of that.

Michael Price

When we heard about the Bay Street production and how wonderful it was, we knew audiences would love this musical and that it would be perfect for our first touring venture across the country.

Mary Berry

What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow.

Jill Soloway

We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.

Arturo Dubois

When we were 0-and-4, our coaching staff kept telling us to work hard, keep at it, keep playing hard, and we'd get better.

Duncan Robertson

We remain deeply concerned for the future of our business and the livelihood of thousands of our staff and subcontractors.

Wolfgang Niersbach

We're getting the message to cab drivers, airport staff and everyone that the World Cup isn't just happening in stadiums.

Gary Powers

We're going to staff it out because we have some guys who need some work.

Dave Esquer

We're going to pitch a lot of guys and kind of have a staff day-a bunch of guys pitching an inning or two apiece. We're going to get some guys some game experience that they're going to need in these coming weekends.

Chipper Jones

We're going to go as far as our pitching staff takes us. It's been that way around here for years. If we pitch well, we're going to win a lot of games.

Tony Brown

We're going to give this one to Doc, even though he's not here with us. We know he's going through some tough times right now, but from the coaching staff to the players, we want to send this out for him.

Bob Fulton

Wexford Plantation is excited to bring college golf back to Hilton Head Island. The membership and staff have embraced the opportunity to have some of the best college golfers come to Wexford and compete.

Jerry Colangelo

We would very much like to have Greg participate in our camp. There is a meeting that will take place at the Final Four with Greg, his family and the coaching staff at Ohio State. We'd love to have him involved. He has a chance to be a big-time player.

Juliette G. Low

When I was little, people fattened and then slaughtered their own Thanksgiving turkeys.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.

Bob Djurdjevic

What he is saying is we expect to meet the expectations thanks to this additional source of revenue, not from our existing ongoing operations,

Romulus Whitaker

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents.

Li Zhi

With the indexes edging up, retail investors will gradually return to trading. Institutions such as insurers, pensions and overseas banks will restore interest in the markets, partly thanks to low pricing and the country's economic boom.

Britt Beemer

With nothing hot to buy in decorations this Christmas, many stores started selling two weeks earlier than ever before, beginning in mid-September. Many stores skipped Thanksgiving altogether and went from Halloween to Christmas.

Roger Toussaint

We extend thanks to our riders and to our members for the support that they have received in the last couple of weeks of difficulty.

Himanshu Patel

We're expecting both of them to do well. The French carmakers are safer than the Germans, partly because they have limited U.S. exposure and partly thanks to a fairly robust home market.

Scott Jones

We're pleased to see that SDCA members have turned out in force thanks to nice weather and the proximity of the convention this year. Having our members participate in the policy-development process is key to setting the direction we want for NCBA.

John Carr

We've always said controllers are like runways -- it takes three to five years to make a good one,

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Ozzie Guillen

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Arron Afflalo

When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long time.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Jason Peters

When I was little I'd design these dresses and show them to my family. There'd always be three or four or five (designs) on the fridge.

Justina Machado

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.

Alan McCollough

We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new trends on which to base any charges in earnings expectations." ()

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Jim Harper

What we're seeing is just the start of a trend in which government prosecutors will use (Internet) search results in criminal investigations.

Tracey Mills

What they're doing now is more targeted marketing. One is cash incentives - some say it's the next wave after free checking - and the targeted marketing is a trend we've noticed for several years now.

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.

Judith Curry

We found no long-term trend in things like wind shear. There's a lot of year-to-year variability, but there's no global trend. In any given year, it's different for each ocean.

James King

We bucked the trend in radio research. We did what no else said could be done.

David Sidwell

We bucked the recent trend of lower second-half results. We see two reasons for that: improved market conditions and improved risk efficiency.

John Armstrong

We bucked the industry trend and are maintaining a strong circulation story, ... We are strengthening our position against our competition in the East Bay ... the Chronicle and the Alameda newspapers.