Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bongiovanni

Tom Petty kept his price very low compared to his contemporaries. Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire did, too, when they paired up for a tour, and it was very successful.

Jimmy Jackson

What we're seeing here is a cake walk compared to what people on I-45 are experiencing, ... There are people who have been on the road idling so long they ran out of gas.

Paul Goodman

What we're saying to people is 'Look, we'll wipe that (Internet access) cost out for you, but make your other calls through our service and we'll give you discounts (of 30 percent compared with standard British Telecom rates),

John Armstrong

When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It is possible that we could purchase some things from them on a spot basis. But that wouldn't be much compared to the way things were.

John Gay

What he was doing is unrecognizable compared to what I do on a day-to-day basis.

Deborah Muoio

We found that obesity was associated with a threefold increase in SCD1 expression in obese muscle, as well as a threefold higher level of SCD1 enzyme, compared to lean muscle.

Gerard Charles

We both read the stories through last summer. There was way too much for one ballet, so we compared notes. With almost no exceptions, we were in line with each other about what we thought was important to keep.

Susan Parrella

Usually I know what at least five other school systems are doing. One superintendent could tell me what three systems were doing today. We share what each other's street departments have told us so I know what another community that is adjacent to us is being told compared to mine.

Steve Milunovich

We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent this year compared to 30 percent last year, ... But by the second half of the year, the economy may brighten, earnings comparisons are easier and we could start to see an easier tech tape.

Larry Peruzzi

We're slightly lower to unchanged basically for the second day in a row after a little bit of a rally. That 11,000 continues to be a key resistance area.

John Shaughnessy

What we're seeing happening is the best of all worlds. The economy is strong yet inflation remains quiescent. The earnings outlook remains reasonably good. Given those things, the money continues to flow into the market from both domestic and foreign sources.

Ellen Siminoff

When we entered the market, we bet on sophisticated technology to solve the complexity of the search marketplace, and we bet right. The marketplace continues to get more and more complex, and we are the only firm with the technology to scale to the needs of marketers.

Cody Vanderford

What he was able to accomplish in one season is a sign of how talented he is. He is going to be one of those guys who goes to the next level and continues to improve.

Jorge Valdano

What he has done is the most basic act of indiscipline for any player. If he continues like this he will be putting his sporting career in danger.

Michael Blythe

We are getting the investment we need to see. It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

Michael Blythe

We are getting the investment we need to see, ... It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

John Davidson

What's limiting us on the upside is the double-digit gains we saw in 2003. What limits us to the downside is that the economy continues to strengthen, although concerns about the job market persist.

Richard Harris

What's interesting here is that you can see how the cost of operations continues to rise and debt obligations continue to rise, while capital improvements have gone down. Money has just not been available for those types of services.

David Cole

What they're really looking at is the long-term implications of this. In the past, there was a decidedly short-term mentality, and basically what (GM) would say is we'll settle so we can meet our quarterly profit projections. That's different today. The financial community is concerned about the short-term return?but what they're focused on is the long-term profitability.

Geoff Ogilvy

With three or four holes to play, it looked decidedly unfavorable for us. But Justin made a massive par on 17, and then on 18 we got it down.

Mark Zandi

Workers are asking for bigger pay increases and they are getting them. The pendulum has swung decidedly in favor of workers.

Eric Walters

My family claims I think I'm always right, although I'm always willing to be proven wrong. I hold my opinions dearly, but you can always try to convince me differently, and if you do, I will hold that opinion dearly. I am decidedly stubborn and have been described as not having a type-A personality, but a quadruple-A personality.

Ernie Accorsi

If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.

Robert Ecker

What makes this program not just historically relevant but also immensely entertaining are the personal reflections and pop culture content that will be key components of Back in the Day . Central to the concept and what really makes this stand out is the decidedly modern approach to the vintage footage. In filtering the storied past of the sport through the prism of the high-tech present, two key elements clearly emerge - Dale Jr.'s unabashed enthusiasm and respect for this era; and the sheer magnitude of the changes that have occurred over time.

Robert Sinche

Some of the recent data we have been getting is decidedly more upbeat. The market looks at this as interesting history, likely to be revised up in future months.

Aage Hareide

I think we can beat them. I know that the Czechs decidedly have the most pressure on them ahead of these games. They have some class players who went to the European championships in Portugal, but many are out now.

Mark Zandi

It depends on your time frame. For the next few months, it's decidedly a negative event. But in a year or so, the effects will likely have faded.

Martin Rees

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.

Fredrik Ljungberg

We're maybe not so physically strong. It doesn't really matter in the Champions League but maybe in the Premiership we have suffered a little bit for it, but I think in Europe we look really sharp. Unfortunately, we have not been able to cope with the physical side and we have suffered from that. In Europe we have been allowed to play more football.

Lara Rhame

We're getting to a phase where European data could have more of an impact because a solid U.S. economic scenario is so widely expected. The markets are also very thin, so traders aren't taking on large amounts of risk.

Sean Kinney

We're going to go and play the songs one more time. It seems like the right time, so I figure we'll go out and play a few gigs and see where it goes. I think we might just show up in assorted places in the U.S. in the next few months without much notice and play some clubs and little theaters, and then go to Europe and play these festival gigs. Beyond that, we don't know at this point.

Rick Oltman

What we're saying is the law needs to be applied. The law needs to be followed and that means the law for everyone, not just the illegal alien Mexicans but people who are here illegally from Europe and from around the world.

Janna Sampson

What they're doing to drive sales growth in the U.S. matters the most. We know they're trying to replicate in Europe the great gains they've had in the U.S.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Doug Porter

What has changed in recent weeks is long-term interest rates across the globe are starting to feel the heat from Fed tightening and now from rate hikes from all kinds of quarters, including Japan and Europe which they really hadn't had to deal with before.

Michael Walsh

We bought the memory modules from a trusted European distributor.

Doug Blundy

We got two really good people. Considering we're not hiring many teachers, we got a really good deal.

Ken Hayes

With the increasing deployment of Oracle and SQL Server databases as a repository of mission-critical data, auditing and compliance have become critical issues. Our customers have more complex IT and database infrastructures, but may not have the expertise to effectively manage them; DB Audit Expert is a solution that is easy to deploy, easy to manage and that captures all the audit data required to ensure that compliance can be assessed on an ongoing basis without hiring a DBA.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

We're getting hit with more larcenies and home invasions and we have to get more people on the road to stop it, ... We have to adjust the shortages created by the budget cuts and hiring freeze.

Chip Conley

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Mark Foster

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

David Dunkel

We are pleased with our fourth quarter results which, we believe, again demonstrate the Firm's operating leverage and our ability to improve pricing as demonstrated by another sequential improvement in our flex gross margin and earnings per share. We believe that we can continue to migrate the Firm's flex revenue footprint to higher margin business, and are accelerating our hiring of permanent placement associates as the staffing cycle dynamics remain positive. We believe that our ability to generate cash flows from operations of $22.3 million in the fourth quarter, which are the highest quarterly cash flows from operations in the Firm's history, and our strong balance sheet will enable the Firm to capitalize on opportunities to accelerate our growth.

Dan Smith

We are pleased to be recognized for this award. Our business model continues to prove successful through varying market conditions, and we're in a strong position to continue this positive growth. Our focus on hiring the most talented employees, as well as maintaining an aggressive marketing strategy, continues to support our growth and superior service to our customers.

Jeff Markham

We've already seen a lot of IT hiring activity in the past two quarters of 2005.

Maury Harris

We believe that the Fed will require both consistent solid hiring and a rise in inflation before it begins to lift rates.

Keir Dullea

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Kevin Hall

We would work with the City folks, and see what their intentions are.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

Lauren London

I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith.

Blake Shelton

When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

Charles Simmons

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Carlos Ramirez

We acted in the best interest of the institution, ... Our intentions were good and we didn't think we were in violation of our lease. We have always had good relations with the schools and we want to maintain that relation - it's important for the community.

Phil Parkinson

If we had pulled it off it would have been the all-time Cup upset. The last thing I said to them before the game was to ruffle a few feathers and let Chelsea know they have been in a game. I think it was their intentions to keep those lads rested for Wednesday. The fact that they brought them on indicated how well we had done.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

Holly Johnson

When we were practicing for Italy that was one of my main things I talked to Coach Sue and Coach (Cori) Close about - how do I bring that leadership in that two spot? I think it's still coming up and being encouraging and still being positive and energetic.

Ludivine Sagnier

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

Jerome Booth

The possibility of Mexico and maybe Russia trading through Italy is very real.

Robert Smith

There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!

Russ Howard

We're starting to get more excited about it. It's still a long way off, even though we're leaving today. We get to Italy on Feb. 8 and we don't start competing till Feb. 13, but (there's) the excitement of being there for the opening ceremonies, the Olympics themselves and the ambiance that goes with it.

Laurie Graham

I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

Elaine Sciolino

When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.

Lech Kaczynski

We are already seeing problems from the introduction of the euro. At the moment it's mainly Italy that's complaining, but there's nothing surprising in that, seeing how standards of living have fallen there since the currency was brought in.

Atsushi Yanagisawa

We have no problem in our formation. This is a result of our hard work. I'm going to show what I've learned from my experiences in Italy from now on. I'm going to play my best, looking forward to the World Cup.

James Sutherland

We've announced the tour program six months ahead of what we normally would and that's just (because of) the sheer demand and public interest that's out there right now.

Andy Watson

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Ryanne Floyd

When we were first driving through the town, I was at a loss for words. It looked like the hurricane had just come through the day before we got there. I can not even imagine what it looked like six months ago.

Rachel Tucker

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

Dick Gephardt

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Neil Durbin

We remain in a very volatile market. A lot of what we see in the next few months will depend on the weather.

Hayne Ellis

We're six months out so there are a lot of exciting things going on. Everybody has their own components and it's all going to come together very quickly.

Walter Maestri

We're six months from the next hurricane season. There is no way known to man, with all of our technology, that we can deal with all of this. And I don't know that any of us can tell people that they should come back and experience this again.

Steve Williams

We're going to start this activity the first week of April, and focus through the months of April and May and be monitoring, of course, as we go.

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.