Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Wendy Kopp

Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

Vivek Wadhwa

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Ben Carson

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

Brent Scowcroft

The policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which was begun by President Nixon in 1972, was broadly seen by 1975 in bad shape, if not in tatters. In other words, were able to take advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to pursue the same goals they had.

Tom Lynch

The overall mission of Fuel Advantage is to bring technology innovators and government incentive programs together in one place, so fleet operators will finally know where to go and who to talk to about saving money on their fuel costs.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Big Sean

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

David Bailey

I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.

Bat for Lashes

I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

Brian Eno

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Brian Koslow

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

Carrie Snow

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Traylor Howard

In college, I majored - I can't believe there is such a thing - in advertising. And I worked in advertising and PR for a while, and I liked it.

Sarah Hall

I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.

Victor LaValle

There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.

Tim O'Reilly

We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.

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 R. Keating

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Ellen Key

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Bob Stimson

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Louis Font

The Pentagon has instituted this policy to say to the current troops that if you go AWOL you will be hunted down to the grave.

Dennis Ross

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

Carnie Wilson

I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.

Scott Weiss

The experts typically know where the other best-in-the-world talents are currently working and can help you recruit them in with a credible intro.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.

Christopher Knight

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

Mark Stahlman

We recognize that investors who have been trained to only expect steady price declines and even price wars will find this shift towards high-tech counter-intuitive. As a result, many may be inclined to miss opportunities and/or to exit strong performing stocks too soon.

Tony Alexander

You'd have to say there's probably still scope for some further declines in the very near future.

Steven Wood

Unless there is a quick rebound in sales, this suggests further weakness in production and declines in inventories over the months ahead.

Daniel Niles

We've seen this how many times already this year -- three? ... A lot of these names could have 50 percent downside from here. Our big issue is, are the sequential declines (in revenue) over? I'd say no.

Richard Jaffe

Recycling what has worked in the past is a defensive strategy that is working, and it has reversed sales declines for the retailer.

Derek Sivers

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

Soichiro Monji

Exporters' earnings are vulnerable to the dollar's declines and the trend for more weakness is hurting shares.

Rick Egelton

We expect further declines in 2006 and subsequent years as pent-up demand is fulfilled and as interest rates rise over the medium term.

David Seiders

Our forecasts show 6 percent to 7 percent declines in home sales and single-family housing starts in 2006, followed by smaller declines in 2007.

Robin S. Sharma

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Dick Cheney

We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

Toni Atkins

We don't have a lot of places to find this money, ... I think we do all want to know what the impact to services is going to be, and none of it is going to be good.

Paul Schlamm

Was it an impact break? Was there a crack? Was there something pre-existing?

Mike Rogers

We are looking for savings that don't impact the impoverished person,

Mark McKinnon

Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.

Jose Gomez

Tiago did have an impact on the way the team played last year and we're looking for that as well this year,

Joe Donzelli

We'll do it when it will have the least impact on transportation.

Michael Conway

We're not real worried. It won't have that big of an impact on us financially.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Fadel Gheit

Investors need to think first, and not put money randomly into oil stocks,

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Brian Reynolds

Investors are saying, 'we're not getting as much for the risk, so we're not interested,'

John Bollinger

Investors are now realizing that their (worst fears) were overblown.

Nick Angilletta

Investors are looking at this market and taking a step back.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Boris Johnson

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Douglas Conant

You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.

Tommy Lasorda

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Tom Rooney

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

Alexa Von Tobel

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Doug Ewell

We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.

Meles Zenawi

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Kong Quan

We are not in a position to receive this visit.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

We are not in a position to propose a specific plan.

Edward Bilkey

We are not in a position now to stop this.

Lucy Liu

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Alan Embree

When you're in a position to put somebody away, you have to just do it. It's not mechanical.

M. Wolfe

We are rating UPS 'attractive,' ... Our price target on this stock is $70; it's at about $56 right now.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Margaret Thatcher

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Brett Ellis

We're starting to see hundreds of price reductions a day.

Rafael Ramirez

We have said that this is a structural issue, not a short-term factor, and the price is going to stay the same,

Stephen Davis

We know we'll be successful with this operation. The only question is the price we'll pay.

Lech Walesa

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Malcolm X

The price of freedom is death.

Helen Oyeyemi

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.

Marcia Cross

I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.

Mike Hohensee

We'll be sure to recommend him when the time comes.

Mike Hammond

We don't recommend just everybody. We don't want to be a rubber stamp.

Johannes Laitenberger

It is not up to us to recommend anything to the press.

Sam Claflin

Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

Roy Wadia

Doing tests of different sorts is something we would recommend ... in any outbreak situation, especially in one of this scale,

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

Jane Harman

There's a NIMBY issue, ... We have to solve that before we recommend nuclear.

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

John Corcoran

We can put two and two together. That's not suggesting that there was any nefarious doings. But the stock has been under pressure.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Alan Cohen

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Ludwig von Mises

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

Peter Diamandis

Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars.

Giselle Davies

Today we have a totally different and accountable system.

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Moby

Traffic terrifies me.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

Dick Martin

It's not like there are wrecks or anything like that. It's just that the traffic is not moving.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

John Cobb

We want to impede traffic as little as possible.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Paul Morris

Right now, the traffic is all very democratic, ... You want to be able to prioritize.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Wang Hui

By the end of 2006, we will have about 60,000 users in total. The new ones will be installed this month.

Eric Schmidt

Toolbar users are more sophisticated, use advertisers in more sophisticated ways,

Jerry Yang

We look at our users' interests, without our users we don't have business.

Peter Norvig

We thought it was very important to keep our users out of jail.