Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bullock

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

Herb Guenther

We're going to seed the clouds. To what degree and how we do it and how we fund it is yet to be determined.

Stuart Eizenstat

What they want is a substantial degree of comfort, ... We're working on trying to provide a necessary degree of comfort.

Tom Tucker

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals - that's when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the medals with the cases. You see names of fathers and sons and brothers and the reality sinks in that basically whole families were wiped out trying to help people. But that's what we do - what we manufacture generally has a higher degree of meaning to those that receive it. It's not just any award.

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.

Grandmaster Flash

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Herb Sendek

We bring every recruit here to let them know how this campus will increase the value of their degree exponentially.

Scott Stewart

We bend to the degree that we can bend, but he still must get his work done.

Michael Dell

We believe we're doing so to a much greater degree than anyone else in our industry, and it is already a compelling difference in winning and retaining customers of all types.

Kathi Moore

We've asked them to give us the details on the spill, what happened, how it happened, what caused it, what they've done to contain and control it.

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.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Hugh Johnson

What we're seeing from Lehman is that market conditions improved through the summer, and that conditions are likely to continue improving. That's showing up in the earnings and in the detail of their reports.

Alan Bersin

What this budget does is express (Schwarzenegger's) best judgment of how all the competing needs of California can be met and in this case provide a very large increase in education funding. What he also understands is that his process requires a long and detail discussion with the Legislature, which he is eager to engage.

Fredrik Modin

When we are on and when we're playing well, everybody feels that confidence. But at times we have had problems staying with it. But we do have stretches when we pay attention to the details and play well and we have that confidence.

Walt Harris

When we finally get to the game, I'll be looking forward to it. But right now, there are so many details that we need to take care of just to get on the plane and be able to have a good Friday study session that it's kind of overwhelming right now. I really haven't had the time to think that this is my first game at Stanford.

Jami Attenberg

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

John Arnold

We are getting dozens of calls a day asking for details about the Medicare prescription-drug coverage.

Shawn McDowell

We've always thought this senior class had the physical skills, it was a matter of them jelling together as a unit. A year can make a big difference both mentally and physically and the kids have really matured.

Bob Morton

We've always known the destructive powers of hurricanes. The difference now is that we have that much more information. It's that much harder to ignore.

Dan Harmon

When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.

Debbie Oliver

We're making a world of difference in a world of facial differences. Those of us who understand the journey...it's our responsibility to lead.

Sen. Stepp

We're making a difference and doing something right. If a sex offender is near my kid's school, I want to know.

Bill Smith

We're going to pay it one way or another. We think paying based on what the actual costs are over a 5 percent difference is a good way to do this. It's not that we're unconcerned; it's just the price of doing business.

Jim Wright

We're going to need the 12.9. The difference is whether we ask for it one time or are on the ballot in two consecutive years.

Al Gore

What we're proposing is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the classroom. The difference is we start with accountability, we don't end with accountability.

Marty Parkes

What they're shooting for is what Mike called a visible and playable difference between those two cuts of rough.

Richard Boucher

We've always made clear that we felt that Somalia and the situation that existed there made it a potential haven for terrorists.

Jarvis Cocker

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

Ariel Sharon

We respect them (the Palestinians) and have no aspirations to rule over them. They are also entitled to freedom and to a national sovereign existence in a state of their own,

Dave Paul

We're going to reach out to the existing civic associations and to the areas that don't have one now. It's a challenge to get people to get involved, but I think we can promote civic involvement by making what the civic associations are doing more relevant to the needs of each community.

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.

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.

Fred Goss

We write a very strong script. The dialogue just doesn't exist within it. We give the script to the actors and they have a few days to chew on it. Dialogue is never written down. It's generated while we're shooting. We'll throw the actors a line and see where they take it. They bring lines of their own.

Bob Djurdjevic

What he is saying is we expect to meet the expectations thanks to this additional source of revenue, not from our existing ongoing operations,

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Joe Pack

When it comes down to being the sponsor of a team, it has become a lot more business-oriented than people think. Their legs are like machine guns going up and down.

Page Hamilton

Wharton was my only choice to co-produce this project with me. I want to get back to my roots with this release and what's really cool is that we are actually using the same tape machine that we recorded our first two albums with. The whole thing is also going to be done in all analog to give it that classic Helmet sound. We're very excited about it.

Judith Ganes

What happens is that the cane gets toppled, then the stalks get twisted, and they'll have to use machines to carry out the harvest.

Mike Hawkins

We found NAC to be too intrusive. We can't touch every machine in a large university.

Janice Atkinson

We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.

Steve Moss

Years ago, technical writers documented machinery and equipment; today they're more likely to work on information for software, websites, intranet pages, and procedures and polices in business areas like knowledge management,

Tom Lake

Working there, excavating, is truly like taking a ride in a time machine as you uncover cultural artifacts that see the light of day for the first time in thousands of years.

Bob Recker

With the machine doing the driving, it's repeatable. With a human doing the driving, it's not.

Rob Sumner

We're far from a well-oiled machine on the power play, but we're starting to recognize plays and make quick decisions to create better shots on net through traffic. With the chances we had early against Spokane on the power play and the results we had late, we can gain some confidence.

David Sinclair

We are proud to be teaming up with Mr. Glenn and the Glenn Foundation. Like us, Paul is dedicated to finding the molecular answers to the aging process so we can understand the mechanisms of normal aging and develop interventions to delay its onset and decline, thereby extending the healthful years of human life.

Eric Kandel

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

Bill Gates

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

John Marshall

To our knowledge, the current study is the first to identify a molecular mechanism that blocks both retrieval and reconsolidation of any type of memory. While much remains to be understood concerning the cellular processes underlying the effects of ERK in drug-stimulus associations and other types of learning and memory, the present findings offer hope for treating cue-elicited relapse in addicts.

James Rothman

One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.

Timothy Robishaw

The process of star formation is obscured because it takes place in these dense molecular clouds, so it's not yet directly observable. Astrophysicists believe that magnetic fields play a strong role in regulating the star formation by affecting the shape of these molecular clouds.

K. Eric Drexler

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

K. Eric Drexler

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

K. Eric Drexler

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

Ted Cruz

Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.

K. Eric Drexler

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

Robert Lanza

We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

Jamie Lawson

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

Walter Murch

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

David Buckel

This development in New Jersey is particularly good for people who can't afford wills. This is the tiniest of baby steps compared to the one giant step of marriage.

Sathya Baba

Duty is God; Work is worship. Even the tiniest work is a flower placed at the Feet of God.

Armand Salmon

The tiniest of sparks can kindle the greatest of fires.