Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Lynch

We've always reached the hardcover buyer more than the paperback buyer.

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Melissa Rauch

When I was out of work when I first moved to L.A., one of the first things my husband and I did was buy season's passes to Disney, and whenever I was bummed out about work, we would go to Space Mountain, and it was like a physical injection of anti-depressants.

Sofia Boutella

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

Dave Morris

When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.

Marshall Cohen

When it becomes the third week, the novelty is going to wear off, but the consumers will still be buying one more item just because of the fact that they're going to be having ... more in their pocket. That one item is going to add up and it is going to benefit the retailer more than the consumer.

Maripol

When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion.

Nick Saban

We're modern-day gladiators, that mental toughness, if you will, is really important to have in a good team. It's got to permeate your team and there has to be a core group of guys that buy in and believe in that.

Nick Saban

We're modern-day gladiators, and that mental toughness is really important to have (in) a good team. It's got to permeate your team, and there has to be a core group of guys that buy in and believe in that.

Dan Beck

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

Ken Dey

We remain confident we will continue to see an increase in wages if we can successfully bring in more companies that pay higher wages. Our ultimate goal is to get ahead of inflation.

Margaret Teo

We remain confident that we will have very strong proposals from the remaining companies and that the Request for Proposals exercise will fulfil our tourism objectives.

Jim Owens

We're so early in the storm ... that the hometown companies only themselves are in the early stages of identifying where the damage is.

Andrew Lochart

We're going to see some virus activity there that takes advantage of that. I think we'll also start to see more companies recognizing that they need to put security solutions in place.

James Awad

We're going to go through a period where we find out what tech companies are really what they thought they were and which were hype.

Sumit Sadana

We're going to first and foremost start working with customers to commercialize the technology, that's the first priority, and to the extent that we can find companies in complementary markets, who don't compete with us head to head, we may look at licensing agreements with them.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We're going to expose what the tobacco companies knew and when they knew it. The American public is going to know how the tobacco industry manipulated kids, manipulated nicotine and manipulated public policy. Congress and the Department of Justice are going to know the pervasiveness of the fraud,

Kenneth Fisher

Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.

Bob Davis

We've always had a focus as a company on bottom line and fiscal responsibility, ... And I think especially now in the days of Internet consolidation and I think more of a discriminating investor, it pays off very well for us.

Barbara Boxer

To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing.

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.

David Singer

Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.

John Mulkey

We remain fans of the local Las Vegas gaming market, which we believe is the best risk-adjusted market in gaming today, and we can't fault the company for deploying capital in these markets.

Steven Campanini

We resolved several big issues involving the company that many people thought would have been the end of the company.

Buzz Hargrove

We're going to hang with the deadline, ... We either have a settlement or we'll have a shutdown tomorrow night at midnight. We're working toward a settlement and we hope the company is doing the same thing.

Bob Krabbe

We're going to fight that vigorously. If the company were to have its way, we would be looking at losing literally thousands of jobs to overseas labour. This is something that we have not seen at any other airline. United (Airlines) in its worst days has never tried to do this.

Andrew Hargadon

What we're seeing now with eBay is an end to the monopoly. The company faces a serious challenge over the next 10 years.

Jay Haas

I guess in a condensed version, I would say I think I've had a successful career but I'm not satisfied,

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Matthew Stewart

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

Tiger Woods

I think it will be exciting for us as players ? with basically one big event every month, from beginning to end. The whole idea is to build excitement in the game of golf. By having more of a condensed season, I think that you'll see more of the top players playing against each other in the same fields, and I think that's ultimately what the fans want to see. We as competitors want to have that happen as well.

Fred Haise

Given that the movie had to condense four days into two hours, and given that the communications were sometimes rather tedious and technical, it was pretty accurate, ... Apollo 13.

Craig Brown

We've taken about an 18-month project and condensed it to about 10 months.

Mary Farrell

One thing that we have seen in the market over the last few years is a tendency for movement to be condensed in very short time frames.

Katie Price

Just because you have kids doesn't mean to say you need time off. I have a lot of time off anyway. If I'm promoting my book, like, for the next two weeks, I'm flat out. But then I'm off again. And when you've got the next product, it's the same; you just condense it into a couple of weeks.

Laura Bailey

It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.

Bob Phillips

We respect the right of our employees to organize,

Greg Saunders

We respect their right to show unity, but our focus is on what's right for our Chicago employees and their wages and benefits packages.

Tony Ross

We respect our employees rights to organize and engage in collective bargaining and we respect all the rules and regulations in all the jurisdictions that we operate.

Mike Cooke

We would seriously question the judgment of any board member or administrator who would have this community believe that they can simply fire the current employees and contract with an outside company to bring in strangers to work in our schools, and still provide the same degree of quality, safety and service that our current custodians and head custodians provide.

Alan Mulally

We believe this settlement provides what IAM-represented employees say they want in this contract, where they want it.

Nitin Jadhav

We're going to intensify our agitation until the government relents. It is the question of the lives of thousands of airport employees and their families.

Glenn Tilton

United has the most committed employees and strongest airline franchise in the world. We will not let it fail. We look forward to working with you to implement the coalition framework,

Brendan Barber

Unions do believe in proper regulation - but this initiative shows workplaces can do even better when managers and employees work together.

Phil Ramon

We're doing everything to keep our employees and utilize them in the most productive manner in an effort to have our community return to the way it was.

Barton Gellman

U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.

Scott Kirby

We're going to continue expanding that. We are proceeding a step at a time to make sure we know what we're doing.

Jim Stallings

We're expanding this platform into another role, one as a data hub.

Kevin Walsh

We're expanding our renewable energy team to take advantage of a perfect nexus of positive developments in relative costs, technology, regulations and public opinion. This nexus propelled our renewable energy portfolio growth during 2005 by 40 percent, to nearly $1 billion.

Tim Smith

We're expanding our niche in student housing properties in the Western United States and are looking to buy more large-scale multifamily and student apartment housing properties of 200 or more units.

Diane Wagner

We're expanding our branches in the Florida market, going to full banking centers to focus on customer service.

Don Perkins

We're expanding and taking care of customers that asked us to expand out here. The whole (North Point Enterprise Zone) package offered made it conducive, as well as its location to the port.

Brent Hieggelke

We're expanding and maturing this category beyond the 'rear-view mirror' most Web analytics companies have today. We're taking advantage of the Web analytics foundation to improve marketing performance.

Robert Collins

We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.

Susan Dunn

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

Joan Berry

We've asked for a meeting with the sheriff numerous times, and he never has any time or even the courtesy to return my phone calls. This is very upsetting to me.

Ron Brown

We've appointed a committee to look at our needs. We post the meetings and the public is welcome to come and voice their opinion. The public is always welcome. We need to find enough property where we can build as we need. We'll get it done.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Anthony Burger

When I was little I thought, 'Wow, to meet Bill Gaither, that would be great,'

Joshua Katcher

When it comes down to a meet like this and you put two equally talented kids out there, it comes down to which one wants it more. Obviously, our little guys wanted to move on.

Steve-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

Norman Blake

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.'

Pat Ivey

We've always felt that this Business 40 effort could be a model for other projects.

Bill Coleman

When we were dating it was in a Model A. And we've owned one ever since.

Kyle Whittingham

When we went to 12 games, everybody kind of went into panic mode because scheduling a game is not quite as easy as you might think. Usually, these games are scheduled five, six, seven years in advance.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Bob Watkins

When it came time for the announcers to introduce Elvis, the stadium was filled with anticipation. At the mention of Elvis' name, the modest crowd cheered and looked expectantly at the parked Cadillac.

Jim Wicklund

We remain positive based on economic activity and E&P spending; we're also positive on 2007 but see some risk to E&P spending given the potential squeeze on returns (with) a possible moderation in commodity prices in '07. Visibility remains too good to worry too early, however.

Henry Blodget

We remain enthusiastic about eBay's business model and market leadership position.

Bob Lekites

We remain confident about our long-term customer demand in the U.S. and abroad. And whether it's in Europe, Asia or Latin America, we need to be prepared to deploy a modern jet freighter that's flexible enough to operate anywhere.

David Paulson

We're so impressed with the state we're using it as a model (for future disasters), ... It was something we've not seen in a long time. There was a unified system and the sharing of information.

Susan Dunn

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

John Hoeven

We've asked BNSF to fix these problems, and they haven't, which is why we're proceeding with our rail rate complaint with the Surface Transportation Board, ... BNSF needs to do more for our farmers and shippers.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

Kris Janowski

We've always said that fear is the main problem. And that needs to be allayed.

Franco Harris

We've always been very close. But right now I feel there needs to be a change in the direction from where our national administration has taken us and where the Republicans in state government want to take us.

Brenda Davis

When I talk to Mark I have to constantly remind myself that he's just 13. And the Clearly family truly needs this blessing.

David Singer

Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.

Amar Stoudemire

We're getting the ring this year, ... I'm carrying my load and anybody else's that needs me to.

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.

Ransom Antoine

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse that we normally have.

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.

Hamish Brewer

We remain confident in the prospects for earnings expansion in 2006 and will discuss this in more detail during our normally scheduled earnings call on Jan. 23.

Mark Coffman

We're going to try some things this game we normally wouldn't try in a district game. We're going to try to win the game of course, but we're going to experiment with different combinations on the floor to match up with (Midland High).

John Cole

We're going to try and match up as best we can. But we're going to have to pitch a bit differently than we normally do.

Delos Smith

We're going to see people trimming their expenses here and there. They probably will not eat out as much or go to movies as often as they normally would. So restaurants and theaters are also vulnerable.

Rick Perry

We're going to pull together so that these families can find as much normalcy as we can. We're going to get through this together as one American family.

Jerry Conway

We're going to find seals in places they're not normally at, and where people are.

Bryan Whitman

We're going to move the resources that we think can be helpful to the scene as rapidly as possible. Efforts are being led by the Russian government and it (U.S. assistance) is something that they have asked for.

Peter Adderton

When we began this company, partnering with MTV Networks was our No. 1 goal, not only because of their unrivaled understanding of today's young adults, but also because we share the same goal of delivering the most original and compelling content across the rapidly evolving wireless space.

Gezahegn Kebede

Unless there is swift intervention, growing numbers of people will become severely malnourished and the mortality rate will rapidly accelerate.

Jim Young

Union Pacific is operating more efficiently, allowing us to handle record volumes and recover more rapidly from challenges such as hurricanes, the Kansas washouts and severe winter storms.

Susan Sontag

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

David Rayburn

Unfortunately, many of these factors continue to persist. In addition, several other factors have deteriorated further than our previous expectations, including lower North American automotive build rates and rapidly accelerating raw material and energy costs.

Ken Goldberg

With the market rapidly embracing the benefits of digital signage, and a growing interest in narrowcasting by advertisers, we are excited to announce the 2.0 release of our NEOCAST Media Server software to the marketplace. With the enhanced capabilities, customers will continue to enjoy the market leading digital signage features NEOCAST offers, plus have the needed assurance the solution will continue to evolve as new digital signage standards and demands emerge.

Louise Leakey

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.

Paul Mason

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,