Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund White

Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

J. A. Konrath

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

Virginia Postrel

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.

Nick Hanauer

Amazon didn't create any jobs. Amazon probably destroyed a million jobs in our economy.

Patrick Carman

Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

Rick Smolan

Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.

Xavier Niel

Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

Scott Devitt

We found Amazon results to be mixed and we believe the shares could be weak through the spring/summer months.

Mark Rowen

We anticipate $601 million in total revenue and $385 million in U.S. book, music, video revenue from Amazon in the third quarter, ... Our $385 million books, music, video projection is flat with second-quarter results; however, if Amazon's sequential revenue growth in the sector actually comes in at 12 percent or higher, we believe the company could record as much as $650 million in total revenue.

Jon Thorn

The outlook for the remaining quarters of the year is quite clear and the momentum will be continued. Generating such cash flows will help the company in its plans to make its refinery the world's largest.

Keith Collins

We probably really are not going to get a test on what happens with cattle prices until we get into next week, and we start to see the normal resumption of cash market trading,

Vance Coffman

We are deeply disappointed with this reduced outlook for our company. This level of earnings and cash generation is unacceptable for Lockheed Martin.

Rafael Ramirez

We are not handing out cash in any of these deals. The state's shares are class A, the majority and with a different power of decision-making.

Lee Iacocca

Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.

Birdman

Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Dan Packer

We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort.

Red Herring

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Vikram Seth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Brian Bell

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Big Sean

There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

Bayard Taylor

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

Desiree Rogers

I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.

Nina Garcia

I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.

Francois Cluzet

What's interesting for me is that I generally consider myself to be more of a physical actor, and I'm somebody that doesn't really want to use the dialogue but prefers to act through my body, and then sometimes when I have a script, I look and kind of throw away the dialogue and I just look at how I can expressive it through my body.

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Louis Wong

The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US indicated a need for a rate hike for few more times until next year.

Anthony Weiner

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Morgan Stanley

The peak...is the key determinant of the timing of the prospective turn in the dollar.

Al Madrigal

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Thom Browne

Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.

Lia Ices

I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

Victoria Moran

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

Lisa Roth

We're known for our lime, our citrus. We are the citrus state. We should have a citrus Key lime pie. Georgia, they need to keep their pie over in Georgia.

Michael Marks

There are attachments you can put on the back of keyboards that will record keystrokes and send them to an off-site printer.

Cliff Danley

Tiger is the key to validating your success. You can get nine of the top 10 players, but if you don't get him ...

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

Virginia Foxx

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Ferran Adria

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

Alan Cohen

You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.

Alan Cohen

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.

Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

Agnes Obel

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Russ Oaks

There are other projects with pressing needs that have taken priority at this point in time.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

James Walsh

In the meantime, we are operating as previously.

David Cole

If you take too many people out from an operating plant, you can shut it down. This has to be managed very carefully.

Brian Blair

If you went to weekends, you wouldn't have to worry about repaying grants, and you could save some operating dollars.

Vicki Lutz

These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not one cent, is going to (beds in the shelter).

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Koichi Ogawa

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Ludwig von Mises

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Ian Shepherdson

The only soft spots in the survey remain inventories and employment, but they will recover.

Jimmy Johnson

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Ray Giacoletti

We haven't done anything. We need to remain hungry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

Gene Robinson

We have been very successful in several of these searches.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Lance Berkman

Squeeze it tight. Get under it and squeeze it tight.

Rick Frazier

Right now, he's not a three-series guy. I tried to squeeze too much out of him.

Venus Williams

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Brittany Snow

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

Nigel Clough

We'd like Saul to stay with us until the end of the season.

Ed Butler

We are not going anywhere. I can stay here for months.

Ciara

I want to be one of those moms and women that when I look back, I know that I always stayed focused.

Lily James

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

Carol Foreman

We're not going to get everything we want and the track will not get everything it wants. There's going to be compromise.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Carl Lewis

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

Carl Jung

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Bill Kurtis

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Ed Droste

It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

David Douglass

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

James Goodnight

I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.

Philip Slater

A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.

Bruce Sterling

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Loesje

You do not have to be a hurricane, to turn things around

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Ned Yost

We haven't pitched very well. But those things turn around.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.