Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Park

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

Alan Alda

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

Martin Hughes

We are gratified by the strong financial performance and customer service delivered by our colleagues at Talbot since they joined us in 2004. They have earned these payments through dedication and improved financial returns that exceeded our initial projections.

Ronnie Barker

Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Mason, and goes around giving his colleagues the 'secret milkshake.'

Aung San Suu Kyi

The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

Scott Stossel

I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.

Ben Bernanke

When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.

Christopher Poole

I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

Steve Ballmer

My industry colleagues and I remain eager to work with the Department to support the homeland security mission. We look forward to working with you to pursue opportunities for technology to make cyberspace, and the homeland, more secure.

Gavin Patterson

The overall service experience such as billing, technical support, and repair are important to customers. It's also important to customers to provide them with a one-stop shop for all of their communications needs. Then we have a trusted brand. Whom do you trust to provide you with these important services?

Leo Apotheker

We have lost zero customers to Oracle's OFF SAP program.

Steve Douglas

We are not interested in making a huge profit for a week or two at the expense of damaging customer relations for a year or two.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

Nick Hanauer

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

Rick Tsai

We are having some difficulties in meeting our customers' demand.

Pat McGauley

We're letting customers personalize and individualize their beer.

Jiang Baoguo

To me, when a customer comes in to eat, he or she not only wants to enjoy the the food, but also the environment. That's why I want to make the place nice and enjoyable.

Sven Kramer

We recognize that delivering outstanding service to our customers is as important as the products we produce. Our sales and customer relations staff routinely participate in training to better understand our customer's needs. We also make sure to follow The Golden Rule: treat our customers as we would like to be treated.

Alex Garwood

The Pat Tillman Foundation is thrilled to be participating in this fundraising event. We thank Roy for his dedication to the foundation's efforts to keep Pat's leadership spirit of giving back alive.

Scott Smith

While we recognize the valuable contribution made by all of our substitute teachers for the work they do in maintaining the progression of learning, the outstanding example set by these individuals is particularly noteworthy. They have demonstrated a genuine dedication to student achievement.

David Stern

We are saddened by the news of Jason Collier's sudden passing, ... He epitomized hard work, dedication and perseverance, and more importantly compassion, kindness and selflessness.

Giridhara Gopal

With the dedication, determination and relentless efforts of an ever increasing number of devotees and volunteers of all ages, this temple will become will soon become a focal point for Hindus in North Texas to congregate and practice their faith.

William Shakespeare

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

Alan Autry

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Callum Keith Rennie

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

Benny Goodman

If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

Jonathan Klein

We've got a newfound dedication to being the newsy alternative. We've always intended to be that, but we haven't quite been as up to that as we should have.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Clive Sinclair

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

Pete Townshend

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

Robert South

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Jerry Putnam

We are pleased that our shareholders recognize the value delivered and to be delivered through our merger with the NYSE.

Harbhajan Singh

If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

Paul House

We are proud of the strong quarter that we have delivered in our first reporting period as a public company.

Mike Reed

We approached this as a must-win game because it solidifies our fifth seed in districts, and kept us in the second-half race if somehow God delivered some miracle and Halifax lost.

Stephen Jones

Was the person you delivered (food) to Mr. McVeigh?,

Colm Keaveney

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

Emma Watson

I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

Cherie Lunghi

The lines on your face are your medals. You've earned them, so why shouldn't they be worn with honour?

Bonnie Tyler

I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.

Chad Harbach

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

Kenneth Oppel

Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.

Norman Foster

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

Ace Frehley

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

Mike Zeyen

We're excited about the ones we've got going because it was a heck of a regional. These guys have earned that right.

Freddy Shepherd

We promised our supporters that we would sign a top-class striker and we have exceeded every expectation by signing Michael from Real Madrid on a four-year contract.

Rick Waugh

We had another year of record results and exceeded all of our 2005 targets,

Brad D. Smith

We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.

Bob Turcotte

We have more than exceeded my expectations. I thought perhaps going 14-5 would be reasonable.

Jim Sexton

We've already exceeded in 2006 our revenue for 2005 in terms of signed deals.

Richard Davies

We found some guys. It went well. It exceeded my expectations.

Fadel Gheit

The hurricane impact significantly exceeded everybody's highest estimate. Being in the Gulf of Mexico and being in the path of the hurricanes, there's nothing you can do about that.

Michelle Hewitt

Last year we exceeded the goal by $7,000. We hope to do even better this year.

Paul Whetsell

Results from all three of our recent investments have exceeded our initial expectations and contributed significantly to our excellent 2005 results.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Tom Shaheen

We're not going to induce people to play. We're not going to promise financial gain by playing the lottery.

Pico Iyer

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Jim Hill

We need help from this body. We need someone to relieve the huge financial burden.

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the PBGC is not improving,

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the P.B.G.C. is not improving.

Ian Reid

We are saying to the financial institution: we will give you about $25 million every year for the period of the loan and that's really how we plan to repay it.

Mark Hilson

We are gratified that shareholders have supported our recommendation.

Jay Blanton

We've been very gratified with the conversations we've been having with policy-makers.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We're obviously very gratified by today's verdict. It was a very important case.

Marcelo Porto

The political scene has improved in a big way.

Amanda Hill

We are looking for improvement. All of our swimmers have improved throughout the season.

Lisa Randall

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

Maurice Cheeks

We've got some young players that played well last year and I want to see if they've improved this year,

Dorothy Lakner

The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

Goran Persson

We stand for improved unemployment benefit, they stand for worse. So people can choose.

Natalie Taylor

We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.

Rich Bahner

We're still playing young, but we've improved a lot these last two weeks.

Terry Hoeppner

We're a work in progress right now, but we've improved from week to week,

Karisma Kapoor

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

Nick Benedict

We have all these workers that are getting new skills and new training and we wanted to find a more personal way to promote that development. This is the initial step of what we've come up with.

Jarno Trulli

We can sell initially because of my image. But, if the wines aren't good, we won't sell any more. We've got to keep pushing quality to the limit.

Masafumi Nakayama

Investors initially guessed Japan's high-techs were quite independent of the U.S. market, but everyone's been quite worried since there have been so many profit warnings.

Lindy Ruff

The initial thought is, it shouldn't need surgery.

David Menlow

The initial talk was for $3.6 billion. Now we're talking a valuation of $2.8 billion.

Paul Hamerman

The initial scenarios are pretty thin, but I think more importantly they are providing a more comprehensive vision around what kind of applications could be offered under this partnership.

Michael Hendricks

The initial (reaction) was total paranoia in my circles.

Johnny Griffin

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Jacques Chirac

We have been totally unanimous in our reaction and have shown solidarity, the G8 and the states that joined us for this summit,

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Kate Thompson

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

Abdullah Abdullah

Terrorists from all over the world have joined them.

Rick Harper

It doesn't make sense to think of them as two counties. They are joined at the hip.

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Michael Dunne

You can have 10, 15 or 100 rooms joined together. You also can have people log into the meeting as a participant through their laptops with an IP address.

Casey Wilson

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Gennaro Gattuso

There is little to say after that performance,

Fabio Capello

We could have used a performance like that on our side.

Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Richard Lewis

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

Theresa Gattung

We're very pleased with the performance in the New Zealand business.

Lee McConnell

We're very pleased with our performance, but the Poles have protested,

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Max Brooks

The highest distinction is service to others.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Edgar Mitchell

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Eric Andre

I was a class clown since second grade.

Dinaw Mengestu

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

Tina Maze

Winning the overall is a dream I've had since being a young skier. It's everyone's dream.

Sara Rue

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

Chris Moneymaker

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Dick Cheney

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

Walter Benjamin

I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

Walter Benjamin

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

Walter Benjamin

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

Bob Stapleton

There is a very strong wireless system out there.

Mary Landrieu

We were getting very strong vibes that this was the way they were leaning,

Daniel Basse

We need volatility to make money. We need strong demand.

Ludwig von Mises

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.