Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willard Boyle

I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship.

Vivienne Westwood

I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.

Abraham Lincoln

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Clay Shirky

You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.

Evo Morales

We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia.

Dick Thompson

The point was initially to allow us to have access to these samples. It's not like WHO is trying to prevent scientists everywhere from getting this information.

Jimmy Carter

The overall concern is that 40 percent of the American people don't vote. Secondly, that there's a great deal of doubt in our country about the integrity of the electoral process. Those are the two basic issues. What can we do to address them? Obviously we want to have more access by Americans to the voting booth. And secondly, we want to make sure that the electoral process has integrity -- that it is not shot through with fraud.

Mallory Factor

The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. The high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term exponential negative implications for our economy.

Bruce Braley

The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

William S. Hart

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

Clint Stretch

The political problem is that a lot of the people who will benefit from the AMT being repealed don't know they have the problem yet.

Li Rongrong

The overseas markets are more regulated and Chinese companies can benefit and learn to fine-tune corporate structure and governance. So listing overseas first and then coming back to list will also benefit the domestic stock market.

D. James

The overall solution is aimed at fast-moving products. We will tune the system for others later, but the initial benefits case had been made on inventory savings, and savings in the distribution centers on products that we order often.

Dr. Bhatt

The overall findings were negative, but a benefit was seen in patients with established cardiovascular disease.

Conor Oberst

I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.

Bee Wilson

The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.

David Friedman

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Abu Ahmed

The policy makers are not serious over the issue of improving the overall strength of the capital market.

Denis Napthine

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

John C. Calhoun

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

William Graham Sumner

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

Noah Feldman

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

Noreena Hertz

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Cristina Kirchner

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Erno Rubik

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

Brunello Cucinelli

In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

David Thewlis

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Noah Baumbach

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Torsten Wiesel

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

Valerie Simpson

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

Gavin Patterson

The overall service experience such as billing, technical support, and repair are important to customers. It's also important to customers to provide them with a one-stop shop for all of their communications needs. Then we have a trusted brand. Whom do you trust to provide you with these important services?

Leo Apotheker

We have lost zero customers to Oracle's OFF SAP program.

Nick Hanauer

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

Rick Tsai

We are having some difficulties in meeting our customers' demand.

Pat McGauley

We're letting customers personalize and individualize their beer.

Sven Kramer

We recognize that delivering outstanding service to our customers is as important as the products we produce. Our sales and customer relations staff routinely participate in training to better understand our customer's needs. We also make sure to follow The Golden Rule: treat our customers as we would like to be treated.

Brad Goldberg

We're encouraging customers to test out the enterprise capabilities, understand application compatibility and look at the technologies included to understand the impact they'll have in their own specific IT organizations.

Paige Craig

Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.

Phil Schiller

We try to find better solutions - our customers have given us a lot of trust.

Clive Thompson

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Peter Kellogg

The only real blemish in the quarter has been the royalty situation, which will improve over the rest of the year,

Marcelo Porto

The political scene has improved in a big way.

Eric Shinseki

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Alain Vigneault

We played with the urgency and desperation that the situation demanded. We scored two and that was an improvement for us.

Jenson Button

We had a positive weekend in Turkey and I'm sure we can improve our pace and have a competitive weekend in Monza.

Steve Johnston

We are going to trial some of the Nortel handsets which are 802.11g handsets, and that will improve the throughput. We're also looking at some D-Link handsets, which are also 802.11g.

Efe Ustundag

We still have to improve our conditioning, strategy and mentality. The improvement really will not stop until the end of the year.

Amanda Hill

We are looking for improvement. All of our swimmers have improved throughout the season.

Vivek Wadhwa

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Sherwood Boehlert

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Don Blatchford

We are going to withhold the portion of the rent increase that we feel is unfair and unreasonable.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Lee Raymond

to minimize the increase in price while at the same time recognizing if we kept the price too low we would quickly run out (of fuel) at the service stations.

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Peter Jackson

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

Kabir Bedi

Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

Willie Robertson

Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three different colors. I don't think he washes it. It's nasty.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Steve Sullivan

We had a lot of positives this year, but this is no longer acceptable.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

J. Taylor

A lowering of tariffs will help. However, it's not the only issue.

Ricky Boren

We've taken a lot of applications, ... Since then, out of the 80 applications, we've interviewed six of those. We do not plan to lower our standards for being an officer.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Christine Ebersole

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

Meles Zenawi

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

James Howard Kunstler

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Millard Fillmore

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nydia Velazquez

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing' or a 'What's up' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Justin Timberlake

I would never do anything just for spite.

Pope Francis

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Tim Murtaugh

Russ Potts is an angry, bitter, spiteful man.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.