Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Wood

We've always known that the air quality on board flights wasn't the best, but there isn't much a passenger can do.

Curt Johnston

We've always done majority rule. You can't give veto power to one board member. That's a terrible choice. I think it's a real mistake and will create a lot more problems than it will solve.

C. C. H. Pounder

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Brian Snitker

You don't know what will happen in spring training, but it was an encouraging board to look at.

Arturo Gonzalez

We're going to sue the superintendent, and we're going to sue the state Board of Education. ... It's like a three-ring circus over there. We will spare no expense to help these kids.

Greg Wilder

We're going to go back and develop a plan. We may do different variations and bring them back to the board in April.

Peter Murphy

What this bill would do is a poison pill amendment to require the school board to approve the existence of a new charter school going forward. So this idea that this is some kind of compromise measure, that it lifts the cap but provides the oversight, is completely misleading. In fact, it's designed to pretend to lift the cap, but in fact, squash any new opportunity going forward.

Harry McDonald

Whenever possible, the State Board of Education should not impose things on local school districts just because they can,

Corey Caldwell

When weapons are allowed back on board an aircraft, the pilots will be able to land the plane safely but the aisles will be running with blood.

Sean Howard

We were supposed to configure the Web server to be secure, but mistakes allowed them to run Linux commands on our server.

Gary North

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

Christine Martin

Pluto is a pit bull, and he must've been very well-trained at some point, but he had just lost everything. He didn't have the commands anymore.

Robert Casey

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.

Chuck Olsen

If the high-grade gas commands 20 cents more per gallon, ... he can pocket $200 for selling 1,000 gallons of regular at the higher price.

George Orwell

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Elizabeth Herrell

Having customers get caught up in a tangle of commands and layers and never getting to an agent has been a constant source of frustration for years. But don't shoot the technology.

Richard McGrath

He relates to everyone and has the ability to work effectively with people from all walks of life. (The unanimous vote) is a reflection of the universal respect he commands in the party.

Adrian Benepe

When I was a child growing up in the city, you never saw hawks. It's now quite common to see large birds of prey in New York City.

Seth McClung

We're major league pitchers. It's one-and-one, you understand. You want to get ahead. You have to play common sense-wise." ()

Tom Kloza

We're going to see $3 a gallon gas quite commonly in the next week or so,

Kenneth Fisher

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

Richard Boucher

What this does is it brings a common view, a unified message, a unified position of the United States and Europe,

Alfred DeMaria

What they have in common is living in an area that exposed them to at least one infected mosquito that transmits the disease,

Dan Moore

When we began to think about our clients' interests, we discovered a common passion for motorcycles. Therefore, we created an event that is centered on that common passion. This passion for riding, coupled with the need to learn about the latest models of John Deere equipment has led to our employees, vendors and customers having a fantastic day together.

Toba Beta

When we do stargazing, we stare at the stars...and many other things which we have presumed commonly as stars.

William Hazlitt

What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten! How different from the common art of self-tormenting!

Charley Pride

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

Andrea Lewis

I love being on the Yard, the atmosphere is energizing yet calming at the same time.

Joe Ricketts

Joe is a perfect fit for Ameritrade. The board and I are so enthused by the wealth of experience he brings, and the common vision he shares. From his experience at Merrill, Joe commands a unique insight on the brokerage industry, and an energizing management style.

Tom Jones

I thought it was very positive. They're pleased with the progress they've made in the past six years, and they've performed some miracles in energizing learning.

Scott Rubin

For years, racing fans of all ages have been playing the Ridge Racer and Pole Position franchises on virtually all video game platforms. With the same speed, quality graphics and energizing sounds found on home consoles, fans can now enjoy burning rubber on their mobile phones.

Greg Bennett

She is like the Energizing Bunny in that she just keeps ticking. She is a tough kid who played through adversity.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

Kirk Hammett

A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.

Phil Jackson

There really is something nice about it as far as energizing this team. This team has some deadbeats on it, anyway, and the coach is one of them. It's good to have some people out there that are enthusiastic about the game.

Alejandro Fernandez

What enthused me the most was that each of us each in his own genre (has) fused our sound with pop.

Tommy Lasorda

I am enthused and excited to be named the honorary starter. Waving the green flag is like swinging a bat; it's all in the wrists.

Rick Majerus

Golf is a diversion to get away from basketball, and then when he's golfing, I think his attention is diverted to plays. That's his New York Times crossword puzzle every day. This is the most enthused I've seen him in the 20-plus years I've known him.

Steve Albrecht

Matthew comes across as extremely knowledgeable and enthused about what he's doing. It's very difficult to interact with him and not get excited.

Joe Ricketts

Joe is a perfect fit for Ameritrade. The board and I are so enthused by the wealth of experience he brings, and the common vision he shares. From his experience at Merrill, Joe commands a unique insight on the brokerage industry, and an energizing management style.

Kevin Garnett

Our inspiration was coming out and knowing how we played against them in (California). We didn't play our best game, and we were more enthused than anything to get a little payback, if you want to call it that. The fourth quarter was a lot more energetic.

Karen Hanretty

Now, the cult of personality has diminished and Gray Davis is no longer our nemesis. The Republican Party ... becomes very important, and he needs to make sure that those volunteers are engaged and enthused and willing to fight for him.

Birch Bayh

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.

Steven Dahlstrom

Seeing young people enthused keeps me jazzed up.

Steve Matlock

We've assembled a team of dedicated, energetic people whose experience and enthusiasm for this industry is unparalleled. With these talented leaders in place, La-Z-Boy is in for an exciting ride.

Juli Inkster

We've always got a good field here, and the course and the facilities are great. We've all enjoyed the experience here. I think it's great that they're trying to work it out to stay.

Diane Sollee

When we were saying it doesn't matter in the '60s and '70s and '80s, we didn't have the experience of enough kids in a culture when families were breaking down. It was just our best guess.

Rick Moranis

When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.

Phil Klay

When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

Bob Nardelli

Tom Taylor brings decades of company and retail experience to his new role. He has touched virtually every part of company and has in-depth knowledge of stores, products, associates, suppliers and customers. Tom has served in numerous leadership roles that have directly influenced merchandising and marketing efforts.

Ashley Magnani

We remember our experience down in San Juan, and it would be great way to complete our senior season.

Brian VanGorder

We?re making a lot of the same mistakes which is kind of disappointing. Offensively we have some guys who can make big plays. We are getting better in compartments but need to do a better job putting everything together. That comes with experience and better communication.

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.

Peter MacKay

We're going to go after the Hells Angels, not Ducks Unlimited. This idea that you can somehow create an atmosphere around people who are already respectful of the law and superimpose this blanket (handgun) ban as a solution -- a one size fits all, cookie-cutter approach -- is an absolute abysmal failure. It's publicly misleading and it doesn't drill down into the real problem.

Dusty Baker

We're going to fit him in right away.

Gary Cole

We're going to find the best fit for us.

Marc Jones

When we get everybody fit and healthy, we'll have a chance to win the state. It'll be a disadvantage (to play on the road), but I strongly feel we got the players to get it done.

Henry Thomas

What he wants more than anything else is to be part of a championship team. It would have been the case with any of the teams. It was a tough decision. They all have an opportunity to win, but he just felt that the Spurs were the best fit for him.

Kevin Allen

What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.

Mike Patterson

We can do barbecue to fine dining to a buffet. Our chef, Elson Rivera, has 35 years of experience in different kinds of cuisine, and he can design a menu to fit the party.

Mack Brown

We felt like we wanted to go back and look at some things, and we also wanted the guys to enjoy a good weekend without having too much pressure of trying to understand where they fit right now.

Richard Kramer

What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision-making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands.

Richard Kramer

What this document gives us is a rare insight into the imponderable process of decision making.

Chris Bohjalian

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Cheryl Richardson

If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

Charlie Munger

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Charlie Munger

We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.

Charlie Munger

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

Charlie Munger

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

Charlie Munger

The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights

Joe Scarborough

When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.'

Tim Ehresman

When we have the opportunity to put Joe on a post guy it keeps him close to the rim. He can rebound and alter shots. That switch was a big key to getting us back in the game.

Tim Ehresman

We're going to have to guard them very tough. And Joe (Kalb) will be guarding one of the post guys.

Peter Bart

Universal had hoped that 'Meet Joe Black' would be their big summer picture, and they just couldn't get it ready. So the only picture they had left for summer, basically, was 'Out Of Sight.' That was their big summer picture -- George Clooney picture. It didn't really work very well.

Ozzie Guillen

We're going to build this team around pitching and defense, and Joe has been a big part of that.

Billy Beane

We're fine with Joe as the only lefty down there. He was a very good reliever for us before Rich got hurt, and I expect him to be a very good reliever for us again. He has all the tools for success.

Jerry Pournelle

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

Tom Atkins

We've all aged some, but I just did, this past summer, another Rockford Files movie with the whole gang out there, Joe Santos and everybody else.

Dana Taylor

We've added two incredible players here. Joey is very technically gifted and a real leader since he was the captain of Canada's under-17 team. Daniel is a big, strong and extremely technical left-footed defender who has the ability to organize the defense.

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.

Stacy Adams

When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal operation for this management is 10 to 14.

John Clippinger

To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.

Larry Best

We're going to spend whatever it takes to help the Guidant management team in cardiac rhythm management with this recovery. It is going to take a little longer. But the long-term perspective here has not changed.

Jay Grossman

We're going to eliminate 3,000 management positions, as we've always said, and those are not going to necessarily be layoffs,

Marcia Wieder

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Patrick Baker

When we defend well and create opportunities on offense, that's really our recipe for success. Once again we had great activity and pressure on the ball. We matured a little bit tonight, we had a greater sense of gamesmanship and clock management toward the end. We saw some good things from the whole 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.

Elizabeth Bradley

We found exceptional, innovative approaches to ensuring rapid treatment of patients, ... We used management techniques and flow charts to define achievable times for each step.

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.

Trevor Horwell

We're going to open that baby two years from then. It's really going to be something that is quite unique in Colorado.

Matt Bitonti

We had 13,000 unique visitors here today on a Monday. Can you imagine if you had 13,000 people in a room, and you were talking to them? That's what you're doing. It's about reaching people, having a voice, having an opinion.

Mark Ellis

We bring a unique fusion of medspa and business development expertise to market for our clients, ... In close conjunction with the client, the character, style and ambiance of each medspa are in perfect alignment with the elements of its unique community and target market. Passion for an early success manifests itself in the way we usher the client through the construction phase making sure that the architect, contractor and client work together cohesively.

M. Wolfe

What makes Charlotte's case unique is the extent to which she has defied expectations in the past.

John Lyboldt

What's really unique this year is we have a real good mix of hybrids and higher energy-efficient vehicles.

Tom Meeker

What skills you need in this job are not particularly unique to racing--good leadership skills, good communication skills, and good consensus-building skills. You have to understand the dynamics of business in general.

John Walters

We're going to have to focus on the particular, unique circumstances we're faced with girls, which is different today than it's ever been before, which has obstacles we've not faced before, but obstacles we can overcome if we do the right thing.

Ron Meyer

Universal had its most profitable year ever in 2005 due in no small part to Marc, whose impact on this company has been the foundation for its unique culture and its far-ranging achievements, His combination of strengths is unique in that he has been able to attract exceptional creative talent in a specialty film environment and at the same time is revered in the global sales and distribution community for his taste and acumen.

Valerie Knopp

Uniqueness of contribution will be a considered more often in the case of a tie between a few students. We also may have runners-up, depending on the number of nominations we get.

Frank Williams

We've always had the vision for developing Cross Bayou. It's a beautiful vision, but it's just a vision. It's going to take a whole lot of money, a whole lot of planning and a whole lot of work to get there.

Rick Bisesto

We're going to grow our product line and add different things. We all have some visions but we're not going to rush that. It will happen in stages.

Jonathan Lee

When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

John Meyers

Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.

Ron Meyer

Universal City plays an important role in our company and in Los Angeles. Now is the time to shape a vision not only for the continued vitality of our studio and theme park businesses but for the property itself.

David Diehl

We're going to do the silent count, whatever we need to do. You've got to look at the ball, concentrate. As for looking at your guy, that's what peripheral vision is for.

Duf Sundheim

We're going to come out of this convention united behind the governor. We have a governor who is big and bold and has a vision for the future.

Jim Coyne

We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.

Al Sharpton

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

Brian McQuade

We're going to see a lot of the money that has been parked in real estate move back to stocks. Wealth should not be centered in your residential real estate, which is going to return to more stable to flat appreciation.

Frank Mauro

What this data shows is that New York has the greatest gaps between wealth and poverty in the country.

William Shakespeare

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

William Shakespeare

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Alan Bennett

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Chanakya

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

Chanakya

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.