Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Hall

When I was in government I always paid close attention to whistleblowers. While sometimes people consider them a thorn in the side, many times they're very conscientious individuals who are trying to do their job.

John Travolta

When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it was a blast to fly! You dressed up, you got in your Sunday best, women wore white gloves, you had room to stretch your legs out, you had a very nice meal, the stewardess paid particular attention to you. It was an event. It's so different today.

Chris Bailey

To most people, when they drive by, it will be the ABC Columbia building. You get extra recognition. It draws a little more attention to what you're doing.

Keegan Bradley

It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.

Billy Donovan

What they've been able to do this year is great for basketball. Most teams don't get a chance to experience what they've been able to experience. In this tournament, they were able to inspire a lot of people. There was no resentment on our team for feeling like they got all the attention or we got slighted.

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.

Andy Moog

What he did there was very smart. He deflected attention from the players, and he let them play, and I think that was coaching as much as anything.

Thomas Mason

What happens is that people will not pay attention to eating and drinking and be caught up in the emotions. You need food and water and fundamental caring and reaching out to these people.

Helen Christensen

We found that, on average, men aged 64 years have smaller brains than men aged 60. However, despite this shrinkage, cognitive functions -- like memory, attention and speed of processing -- are unaffected.

Jon von

We've always stood up well in comparison with our competitors in technical tests but users disliked that they had to pay $39 and that we had ads. We decided to eliminate these obstacles in order to attract users.

Justine Bateman

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

Gerry Murphy

We remain convinced that our home-improvement markets are fundamentally attractive and that the actions we are taking will position Kingfisher well for the future.

Pam Slaton

We're starting to achieve the status of a regional professional orchestra and that's attracting a different level of players.

Jim Hopson

We're sorry to see it go. It took 30 years to put that name back on a Pontiac car. GTO did what it needed to do: Give us a credible performance vehicle to attract people into showrooms. Even those who quibbled about the styling never questioned the car's performance.

Dan Bailey

We're going to go into immediate production after the trials, ... We've been below the radar screen. We're in an industry that doesn't attract much attention.

Marc Touati

What we're seeing now is a total reverse in what everyone expected ahead of the euro debut; retailers understood that the euro would add new pressures for competitiveness, so they chose to push prices down to attract customers.

Bill DeWalt

What this gift does is give us the kind of confidence to know that we have sufficient resources to attract an exhibit like this and adequately market it.

Dannel Malloy

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

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.

Sean Cotter

We've always felt Heidi was a real good hitter, and she's definitely a feared hitter in the conference, but it just seemed like she just wasn't able to put it together for long stretches. And this year she's just been in a really good place, I think, both physically and mentally.

Becky Carlson

When we went to the half-court trap it bothered them and we picked up our defensive intensity. We were able to get some steals. We kept running the offense and got great shots, sometimes they just didn't fall for us but we had a good stretch at the end of the quarter.

Jonathan Maberry

When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professional writers. She introduced me to Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson, and I became very friendly with them over a period of two years. Both of them were very generous with their time, guidance and advice.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

Gregg Laskoski

You don't know with 100 percent certainty that you'll be coming back to the home you left. So you should take essential papers, insurance policies, both home and auto, and any other irreplaceable items, including family photos. Keep them in an appropriate watertight container.

Steve Alic

We're monitoring the hurricane and we continue to be in contact with both the Chiefs and Dolphins.

David Scurto

We're making excellent progress. It was a very informative meeting and it was good for us to be able to hear from residents that live in both the north and south ends of the city. It was very interesting to hear what they had to say.

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.

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Gary Locke

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

Carlos Montoya

Help bridge people out of currency exchanges and used car dealerships and payroll lenders and auto lenders and check cashers,

Li Zhaoxing

China-US relations have, on the whole, maintained stability and growth. Dialogues and exchanges at the various levels have improved mutual understanding and mutual trust,

Li Zhaoxing

China is concerned about and supports the construction of the AU, and attaches importance to increasing exchanges and cooperation with the AU,

Martin Schulz

China is a strong market in which European companies have a lot of chances as Chinese companies have many chances in trade exchanges with Europe. China's good development is in the interest of both China itself and the European Union.

Wen Jiabao

China has conducted technological exchanges and cooperation with the international community on prevention and control of bird flu.

Luo Gan

China and Latin America have seen improved political relations and close trade exchanges in recent years.

Sellapan Ramanathan

Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.

Chris Killingstad

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

Jeffrey Immelt

We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excited about how well GE is positioned for the future,

Ralph Norris

We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.

Edgar Bronfman

We remain focused on building on the momentum in all of our businesses to produce strong quarterly results, and I am confident that we will meet our growth targets for this fiscal year.

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

Bruce Wood

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

Eric Nicoli

We remain confident that digital music will return the industry to growth in due course.

Alex Yemenidjian

We remain confident of our growth outlook for the second half of 2001 and all of 2002.

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

Chris Faircloth

We're more consistent on our assignments. We run our routes better. Still, we're not at the completion percentage we'd like to be. What we are happy about is people have to play us in the pass, which really helps our running game.

Bill Griffith

We're going to throw the football. We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.

Bill Griffith

We're going to throw the football, ... We're hoping our team speed helps us get past those 300-pounders.

Kathryn Hahn

I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?

Katrina Bowden

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Katie Aselton

As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.

Scott Shapiro

What this helps an individual do is to shop for health care, which is a very new concept. But because individuals are paying an increasing amount from out of pocket for their health care, they are increasingly looking for information that helps them shop for health care.

John Cornyn

What this does is serve our national interest from the standpoint of increased security. It deals with our economic needs in terms of the work, but it also, I think, helps to address some of the root causes of illegal immigration by encouraging people to return with the savings and skills they've acquired in the United States.

Michael Conway

Whenever rates go up a little bit, some people aren't going to qualify. But buyers are better off because of the balanced market. That helps them more than slightly higher rates hurt them.

Tony Vecchio

We've always taken a special interest in the health of coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. This fascinating lecture is a way we can educate the public about the importance of our coastal environment and its fragility.

Mike Shula

We're going to put importance on the depth chart through the jerseys. We talked to the guys who have the white jerseys on offense and the crimson jerseys on defense about how you have to fight every day to hold on to those jerseys. We want it on their minds. We want to create an atmosphere that we have more competition that we've ever had.

Robert Morgenthau

What this case shows is, number one, the importance of the federal data bank, and number two, the importance of keeping rape kits,

John Schmitt

Union jobs in auto (plants) has been one of the most importance sources of well-paid employment for African-Americans since World War II.

John Sweeney

Working families need and deserve Supreme Court justices who understand and respect the importance of hard-fought rights and protections, not justices who take an unduly narrow view of the law.

Michael Youash

We're hoping it's going to be considerably more than that. But the main thing to remember . . . is it's not the actual number that's critical. It's the importance of these people's voices being heard.

Bill Lyons

We're honored to be recognized for the second consecutive year by Lotus Advisor Magazine for our technology development work and commitment to the Lotus community. This award acknowledges the importance of issues related to compliance and corporate governance for enterprises in every sector, and we believe our offerings constitute the best technology and services on the market.

Carol Wotton

We want to try to educate them to the importance of reuse.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Dick Cheney

Tom's made it very clear, publicly and privately, that he feels an obligation to fill out his term as the governor of Pennsylvania. He's got kids in school; he doesn't want to move them at this stage,

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.

Tom Smith

What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal.

Richard Kahn

We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are concerned with information about a person's individual medical condition becoming publicly known.

Lindsay Charlton

What's pushing the BBC is they see this as an expansion of their public service remit. We see ITV Local, and broadband, as an opportunity to access new markets. My view of the BBC and its broadband plans are the same as newspapers'; that it is all very well, but there should be a proper market-interest test because they are a publicly funded broadcaster.

Peter Capaldi

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

Roberto Reveles

We feel that students should remain in the school. We're very high on that and have consistently been publicly urging students to stay in school.

Ido Hartuv

We want to see who in the group supports his (Robertson's) statements. Those who support the statements cannot do business with us. Those that publicly support Ariel Sharon's recovery ... are welcome to do business with us.

Ann Cooper

We are alarmed that state-run media are publicly attacking this newspaper. We are gravely concerned about the safety of Le Journal's staff, and call on the government to take steps to ensure their security.

W. Hull

When I was in the record store with Sean Avery helping him look for CDs, I pulled out Tapestry. He was like, Who is Carole King?Can you imagine?

Elgin Bayless

When I talked with the state, they said they had most of those records on microfiche. But they didn't have the books for these years and these counties. They couldn't believe that I had them.

Wayne Coyne

We remixed them in 5.1, which doesn't sound like much, but let me tell you it's really a crazy, complicated thing to take these things that you did almost 15 years ago and revisit 'em in this format that only became available a couple years ago. A lot of bands can't do that because they don't have their own recordings. But we've always recorded ourselves, so it's a matter of me just going to the back room and grabbing the tapes and sort of putting them back on the reel. It's a weird treat.

Brian Archer

We're staring record energy prices in the face every day, it seems.

Tom Birchard

We're sort of in an unprecedented type of regime here as far as the amount of rainfall we received over the last 30 to 40 days. And some of our records go back pretty far.

Gerard Way

We're so excited about playing the new record that we just want to play the whole thing.

Frida Lyngstad

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

Tyson Slocum

What we're saying is, look, there's an easy way to pay for it: the oil companies. They've got record cash flows, record profits. Impose a new tax on them, use the revenues to dedicate to these programs.

Lester Bangs

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.

Todd Rethemeier

What they reported this morning beat my expectations, but it's hard to overlook the slowing customer growth.

Bob Parker

When we got feedback from other airports about how well their lots were working, there seemed to be a correlation between success and proximity to the terminal. Those airports which reported a lack of success had lots further from the terminal.

Mindy Tucker

What he does not think is helpful to the country is misstatements and the spread of misinformation about the actions of the Justice Department. Anyone who reported this morning that he criticized anyone who opposed him was absolutely wrong and in doing so became a part of the exact problem he was describing.

Paul Levinson

What he did down in New Orleans was really an extraordinary accomplishment, which goes way beyond what we would expect a news anchor to do, ... He not only reported what was going on, he did not allow other people to minimize or mischaracterize what was happening.

Stephanie Hall

We found out because it was reported by a witness.

Ed Keon

We feel that numbers are not as bad as people think as a few high profile names have reported below expectations. Numbers so far have come down from where they were but have still come in about 5% ahead of analysts' forecasts ... We believe that growth rates are still pretty robust at about six percent growth for the year.

Mitch Miller

We're focusing on responding to small fires once they've been reported to make sure these small fires don't turn into large fires and further tax our resources.

Kirk Lewis

We are proud of the student who reported this. Students and staff are reacting just like we want. We tell them to take control of their campus.

Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Charles Ramsey

to move as much of the spotlight away from his client as possible.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent. In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent, ... In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Cris Slentz

We believe that these results shine a clear spotlight on the high costs Americans are paying for their continued inactivity. I don't believe that people in general have gotten lazier -- it's more that they are working too hard or are at their desks working on computers with fewer opportunities for exercise. The situation is out of balance.

Irwin Redlener

We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

Bruce Sutter

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

Kendall Jenner

I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

Jim Young

We are honored to have been named America's most admired railroad. The spotlight for this accomplishment shines directly on our 50,000 employees who are truly the heroes in our company's success. In light of unprecedented business demands, we are successfully maintaining focus to stay on track.

Otis Smith

We're moving forward with him as our point guard. We traded for him to be our point guard, to be our leader and that really hasn't changed. We really haven't reached that point yet to where trading Steve Francis.

Peter Kelly

Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation's trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in steel trade matters.

Don Lindsey

World oil prices jumped again this week as the price of crude oil traded above $63 per barrel. Seasonal maintenance being performed at gasoline refineries will temporarily limit gasoline production. The near future will probably continue to show lots of ups and downs, and traders react to news of almost any sort.

Jon Lester

The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.

Patrick McGurn

Very few educational institutions have filed corporate governance or social responsibility proxy proposals at publicly traded companies in recent years. The reason for this is not clearalthough the general decline in campus protest efforts is sometimes cited as the cause.

Gladys Bettis

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

Mark Shapiro

We were at the tail-end of a championship run. Instead of letting that run naturally just play out and transpire, we abruptly traded good players and artificially created an upper-level in our farm system.

Jon Lester

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

Heather Strong

I wouldn't have traded places with the provincial reps who didn't make it. It was a difficult situation, but you make the best of it and move on.

David Stout

We're going to need very large volumes of flu vaccine for the pandemic. Having access to this additional capacity will be a big benefit for us.

Charles Soludo

What we're losing in volume we're making up in price.

Steve Roukis

What's specifically positive about Bear is that they're getting more M&A volume and other non-fixed-income revenue.

Carl Thayer

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

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.

Barton Gellman

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Greg Joswiak

With the increased attention in this area, we want to offer customers an easy to use option to set their own personal volume limit.

Orawin Velz

We're expecting a decline in employment because we expect the volume of originations to decline pretty significantly next year -- 20 percent.

Alan Curtis

We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a quarter of all industrial leasing across the country in 2005, and the size and volume of new transactions has remained strong for us through the first part of the New Year.