Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isiah Thomas

We've always said this is a rebuilding phase that we're in, and we keep trying to acquire assets to help us in that process. In doing that, we also want to secure and help our present.

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.

Ludwig Mises

When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

Adi Godrej

We find it much better not to try and take the Godrej brand across, but use very strong brands we have acquired in different geographies and push them.

Atharva Veda

What little man has to accomplish must be done quickly, at the place that is assigned to him and within the time that is allotted to him. And, man has such a formidable task before him; it is to fulfill it that he has come as man, exchanging for this human habitat all the merit he has acquired during many past lives. The task is no less than the manifestation of the Divinity latent in man.

Carolina Milanesi

Year on year sales grew in all regions as replacement sales in mature markets such as Western Europe and North America continued to drive growth while users in emerging markets joined mobile networks and acquired their first mobile device.

Kevin McHale

We're extremely excited to have acquired Marko, ... He is a very versatile player who has the ability to play the one, two or three spots on the floor. With Marko, we've added another player who can break down the defense and is a pass first point guard. Lionel is a player that we think has some upside and will compete for a roster spot in training camp.

Charlie Munger

The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

David Simons

We are pleased to report another quarter of strong financial and operational results, as well as the completion of several activities that position us well for 2006. During the fourth quarter of 2005 we opened one new development project, entered into a land development joint venture, acquired interests in two regional malls, sold twelve non-core retail real estate assets, issued $1.1 billion of unsecured notes at attractive coupons, and expanded and extended our corporate credit facility on more favorable terms. In addition, our development program continues to proceed with six projects under construction. We are also pleased to announce today an 8.6 % increase in our common stock dividend.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Lennart Wistrand

We're still investigating, but we have confirmed this vulnerability and I am writing a Microsoft ( Profile , Products , Articles ) Security Advisory on this. We will address it in a security update.

Kate Reardon

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.

Bob Kane

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

Frederic Bastiat

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

Don Phillips

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December. For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Don Phillips

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December, ... For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April? Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Jaspher Ombati

Police have evidence of monetary inducement being used to perpetuate the activity which involves a series of fabricated articles aimed at achieving insecurity.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

John Foley

We've always been second in Rochester behind Nazareth in lacrosse, but I think we've proven we can play with them.

Don Brady

When we were behind by 12, they could have said it's not our night. They could have decided on something else. They didn't and did a great job.

Nick Vitucci

When we were 12 points behind Wheeling, we never doubted ourselves and always believed we could do it.

Ellen MacArthur

When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if not in body.

Orrin Hatch

We're starting out $36 million behind but we don't need as much as the front-runner,

Jeff Bezos

We're standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook,

Marlon Cook

We're sort of a little behind on it, but we're dealing with it as quickly as we can.

Mark Perry

We're going to see a period of real public stability, but there's going to be maneuvering behind the scenes,

Ian Roberts

What they went on to tell me was that Arron had been under surveillance and that he had been, prior to him moving in he had often checked at known paedophile's house, houses.

Donald Trump

When we checked with the title insurance company, they said we had ... a complete right to that entrance and exit.

Paul Breslin

When we checked the pharmacology, it was identical to ibuprofen.

Jim French

When we checked her references, that museum lost its funding, her position lost its funding. I called her boss that had worked with her there and that was all verified.

Ariel Garten

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Leander Paes

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

Alex Kapranos

until we read about them in all our reviews. Then when we checked them out we thought, 'What a great band. What a radical approach to playing.'

Eric Christian Olsen

I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.

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.

John Deacon

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

Larry Brown

We've always cooked at the fire department to raise funds. We've probably cooked up a ton of barbecue. We decided let's do it competitively, and here we are,

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

Eli Juarez

When we were down by 19 I'm sure people left to go watch the other game. It came down to earning some respect. We decided to go out and leave everything on the floor. I think the kids earned that respect with their effort.

Don Brady

When we were behind by 12, they could have said it's not our night. They could have decided on something else. They didn't and did a great job.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

John Boyega

When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?

Steve Nash

When I was in my last year in high school, I decided I wanted to try to make it in the NBA. So I went to college and figured out I could do it. Once I figured out I could play in the NBA, I also figured I could be an All-Star. I knew I could do it.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Kevin Jackson

We've always hoped that Page 2 would be a destination for people who wanted a good laugh and didn't take sports too seriously. Much of that was accomplished through parody, so it seemed natural that we'd be drawn to a product like the Onion. I think we've always had an admiration for what they do, and when we talked to the folks at the Onion, we found out that admiration was mutual.

Bobby Bowden

We've always had problems with Wake Forest. It looks like they've figured out their problems and found themselves.

Lorenzo Williams

When we went to the media timeout with eight minutes to go, I just told everybody that we're down right now, but we have a run in us. Eventually, shots started to fall, we started to get stops, and we found ourselves back in the game.

Sharon Hess

When we went to talk to those families, we found out that one of the families was originally from Herrin, so we were able to quickly place them in one of our vacant homes in Herrin. Our agency covers 24 counties, and if we don't have a house available, we can still help a family by making referrals.

Cory Booker

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

Dennis Quaid

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

Angeles Mastretta

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.

Michael Keaton

When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny.

Sheryl Crow

When we were rumored to have split, and when our publicists called these magazines to say we haven't split, the magazines were all so disappointed because that's really what's selling, rooting for a couple and then they split. That's what sells the magazines.

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.

Alan Jay Lerner

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.

Cheryl Strayed

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Chanel Iman

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

Chanel Iman

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

Chanel Iman

We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.

Charlie Munger

...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find that what I see going on there pretty much informs me about what's happening at the macro level.

Ludivine Sagnier

I don't act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time and what I look like.

Tom Yates

When I was in graduate school there was an article that said the purest monopoly anyone ever had was the general store, because people were limited to how far they could ride, ... There was one general store and Granddaddy Yates had it.

Sid Luft

When we got married in the early '50s, Judy was still very beautiful. She was only 5 foot tall just a shrimp of a girl, really but she had a very sensuous body and, up close, her skin was like porcelain, pure white. I was crazy about her. She had incredibly kissable lips.

Oscar Wilde

What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Ted Forrest

We're going to have to change. We've been purely a music company, and if we don't change, we'll die. Our whole focus has to change or we become irrelevant.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Chin-Ning Chu

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

Muddy Waters

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

David M. Kelley

When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other letters that were awarded each year. One was in math and one was in science. I got the math one. But you didn't put it on a letter sweater and wear it around because they'd be throwing you in a wastebasket upside down on your head.

Mario J. Molina

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

John Sulston

When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.

John Carpenter

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

Michael Novacek

We respect people's beliefs, and conversion is not necessarily our goal. We hope that every visitor will have a clearer idea of what Darwin did and, for that matter, what science means.

Paul Johansen

We're going to stick to science on this thing and avoid speculation.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Brian Greene

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

James Sanborn

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

Mario J. Molina

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

Jerry Cantrell

We're making it up as we go along. It's what we always did in the past. We're writing the book as we live it. We feel confident that we will have a good time and that it's something that will live up to the same level. It's an exploratory thing, and we're just having fun with it. We'd like to go out and play for the people that supported us and love the music as much as we have all these years. We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Melindo Persi

We're spending at a level not supported by the tax base.

John Cohen

What a great game and a great atmosphere. The fans really came out and supported us and it gave a tremendous boost to our club. It's really a credit to these players and how hard they've worked for us to have almost 2,000 people in the stands.

Lamont McCann

We're going to head off to some big camps and tournaments this summer and get a lot of work in at the gym. We're very happy that the community supported us the way they did this year. Hopefully we'll come back next year and improve upon what we've established this season.

Jim Snyder

We're going to concentrate on the areas that we were a little low on (votes) today, ... I just appreciate the folks who supported me all along, and I appreciate their continued support for the next three weeks.

Jason Hall

The powerful Superman Returns property will be rightfully brought to gamers with a strong creative vision supported by compelling new technology so they can experience The Man of Steel(TM)'s superpowers firsthand,

Maajid Nawaz

The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.

China Mieville

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

Chen Ning Yang

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

Charles Lamb

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Charles Simic

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

Bob Saget

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

Bob Schultz

We are proud to have been associated with this extremely significant mission. Working with Stanford and NASA, we formed a powerful team to develop the challenging technologies needed to take a giant step forward in helping understand Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Martin Seligman

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.