Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Murphy

We're monitoring (Argent) very closely now, and they've been feeling the pressure. They have been fairly cooperative, although resistant at times as well.

Romeo Serra

We respect the position of the CBCP in regard to the mining issue although we believe that the revitalization of the mining industry presents as a major viable alternative in the effective abatement of poverty in Mindanao.

Marios Maratheftis

We're going to see significant sterling weakness this year. Although the Bank of England is on hold for now the pressure is building for rate cuts in the second half of the year.

Ron Dittemore

We're going to pause and reflect upon the crew of Columbia, their lives, their contributions, their memory, and although we cannot stop our investigation and the recovery effort, we will pause in this location to take the time to reflect upon their lives, their sacrifice. It's a day of remembering. It's a day of remembering our friends, and for us it's a day of mourning.

Kevin Connell

What we're hoping to do is win our division. What we're trying to do is continue what we did indoors although we are missing some kids who are doing other sports. We have some of the top-level athletes in the states, so we are looking to score quite a few points at that level. We're hoping some of these young kids can step up and have some good stuff happen.

Ryan Ford

When we began the war with Iraq, I made a statement that, although I was proud to be an American, I was embarrassed by the actions of our administration.

Jack Edison

We found out we can't just be dependent on one or two guys. We needed everyone to make a difference. Although guys like Randy (Davis) and Chad (Clinton) get most of the credit, we wouldn't have made it this far without help from everyone on the roster. Whether it's in practice or during a game, all these guys have stepped up for us.

Wayne Graham

We blew a couple of scoring opportunities in the second half but the main thing is that we got the job done in the end. The boys have taken a lot of confidence from that although there is another tough one ahead this week.

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 Foreman

We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.

Hugh Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

David Wilkins

When we are facing what appears to be more and more the worst natural disaster in our country's history, many of these other issues we have been discussing suddenly pale in comparison.

Jim Wunderman

What a difference three months makes. This is strong news for our economy and Bay Area workers. Last quarter, with the hurricanes and spike in energy costs, local confidence plunged to the worst level in 33 months, and many survey respondents were considering postponing new hiring. As we suspected, that now appears to have been only a momentary shock, and the Bay Area business community expects the region's economy to steadily improve.

Tom Mann

Unfortunately, it appears that most funds use a June 30 fiscal year. So what they're doing is comparing our figures with people who took advantage of the next two quarters that had very good investment returns,

James Jeffords

With the information and sworn testimony on the record it is clear Judge Roberts has the necessary legal experience and character to be the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, ... It also appears that Judge Roberts will use the law and the Constitution to make his judicial decisions, not his ideological or personal beliefs.

Dan Senor

We're going to do a real investigation here, spend some substantial, significant time with him getting to the bottom of what happened and how he escaped. And then we'll release details as we have them. Right now, let's just make sure he's in good physical shape, which he appears to be, and give him an opportunity to reconnect with his loved ones.

Bill Meehan

We're going to be winding down (earnings) and more focus will be turning toward the presidential election. However, there's not much one can do since the race appears too tight to call. On a poll-by-poll basis, you could see drug stocks impacted negatively or positively, with tobacco stocks and defense stocks similarly impacted.

Henry Blodget

The online advertising market appears to be stabilizing, but we believe it will continue to remain challenging for the foreseeable future.

Kenny Wormald

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Robert Faulkner

What they're doing is moving forward with the J&J process, which is at this point more official than the Boston Scientific process. Boston Scientific has not yet made an official offer for the company. They've merely proposed an offer.

Tracy McGrady

We felt like before the season started, leaving out all the injuries, we felt like we were going to be a pretty good team. We started out slow due to injuries. It kind of set us back a little bit. But winning that home game (against the Boston Celtics), then going on a six-game road trip, that was either going to make us or break us. It was really going to determine our season. We were hungry, and we were really confident and went 5-1.

Lori Leveen

We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until we realized we really only had one seat in the house that had sufficient light for reading and every night there was a battle of who could race to this chair faster with a reading book and I was always losing being the smallest. So we really started a quest to look for an ultimate reading light.

Mayor Sabilia

We're fortunate that Boston Culinary is willing to work with us. I guess we are a city in poverty. I guess we don't like to see ourselves like that.

Derek Roy

We're battling for first place with Ottawa, so all those games are going to be huge. Then Toronto and Boston are fighting for playoff spots, and Montreal's trying to stay in. Those are all going to be huge, key games for us. Those are all four-point games.

Chick Corea

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Charlie Kaufman

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

Charlie Munger

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

Jim Hawkins

We remain very excited about our recent acquisition of Bio-logic Systems. We have made great progress in the integration of Bio-logic, including the successful combining of our two sales and marketing organizations. We are also making significant operational changes to the organization that will make their operations more efficient. We remain very confident that the acquisition of Bio-logic will be accretive to our earnings in 2006 and beyond.

Gene Kimmelman

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

Charles Kankelborg

What's new about MOSES is combining images with spectral information. Many previous instruments have done one or the other, but not both simultaneously.

Victor Shum

Working together in a joint venture... is always challenging. Here you're combining different cultures, political systems and both are after some prize assets.

Mike Reilly

We want to support solar technology and do our part to be a responsible business. By combining solar power and robotic cutting equipment, we are able to maintain our high-end snowboard reputation and show the younger generation that solar energy is the future.

Gary Rodkin

There are compelling advantages to combining these operations. It allows us to leverage the strengths of each business, while simplifying our structure.

Tim Oliver

We're looking forward to having everybody under one roof with room to grow. We believe by combining our resources, we'll get better synergy and cross-pollination of ideas. That will mean better service to our clients.

Joe Francis

We're looking forward to combining these amazing bands with the wild party atmosphere Girls Gone Wild brings to each venue it visits.

John Reed

We are honored to welcome these outstanding individuals to the Board, ... We look forward to combining their expertise and guidance to continue in our mission to perform outstanding basic research in the life-sciences and to provide the foundation of knowledge that is critical to medical progress.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Art Hogan

We're starting to see that companies are starting to admit that the second half is going to be slow, so that's a lingering fear,

Mickey Levy

We're looking for increases in employment, but because the labor force is growing 1 percent a year, we need 125,000 new jobs per month to stabilize the unemployment rate. We see the unemployment rate drifting slightly higher and lingering higher for the next year.

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Jon Rogers

The primary issues today's initiatives set out to resolve are still lingering -- legacy labor costs at GM and a possible supply disruption at Delphi.

Charlie Glavin

Going into Intel's third-quarter earnings report, we are becoming more cautious about how Intel is going to address some lingering issues.

Tatsuro Karitani

But the dollar will remain top-heavy due to lingering concerns over an eventual end of the zero interest rate policy in Japan and uncertainty over the prospect for the Chinese yuan.

Khalid Malik

China should make a larger attempt to solve the lingering problems of farmers whose land was inadequately or randomly compensated in the past, and I am sure it will.

Greg Holland

What we're seeing right now in global climate temperature is a signature of climate change. The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases.

Jeff Berliner

What this event really impacted was the school's ability to compete in the scientific community.

Robert Faulkner

What they're doing is moving forward with the J&J process, which is at this point more official than the Boston Scientific process. Boston Scientific has not yet made an official offer for the company. They've merely proposed an offer.

Eric Lander

What makes evolution a scientific explanation is that it makes testable predictions. You only believe theories when they make non-obvious predictions that are confirmed by scientific evidence.

Gerald Schatten

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

Laurel Clark

We're doing a multitude of different scientific experiments on orbit on things that are only possible to be done in the space environment.

Rivers Cuomo

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

Michael Goldberg

We're getting a solid scientific and clinical foundation for the institute's future work.

Martin Seligman

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Toni Simonetti

We've always said we have a number of strategic alternatives that we're looking at...We continue to do that.

Andrew Maynard

To move from uncertainty to certainty we need good strategic research - and fast.

Bruce Wood

We remain confident that our continued strategic focus on profitable branded growth will positively impact fiscal 2007 and beyond.

Wang Zhaowen

When we announced agreements with foreign strategic investors, it was made clear that these are subject to regulatory approval. Currently, the approval process is proceeding normally.

Hu Jintao

We both agreed to upgrade the relationship into a strategic partnership, ... Never has our relationship been more important than today.

Mitchell Reiss

What Libya did was make a strategic determination that it would have a better future-a more secure, a more prosperous future-if it abandoned its weapons of mass destruction.

Brian Bode

We're going to look at the last strategic plan and come up with a method for a good strategic plan by the end of the year, with community involvement.

Michael White

We're going to have to clean the mess up. Somebody's going to have to. We need to get our children out of harm's way. Strategic withdrawal is where it's at.

Jeff Jones

U.S. Strategic Command did not track any objects for re-entry.