Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willard Boyle

I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship.

Vivienne Westwood

I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.

Abraham Lincoln

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Clay Shirky

You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.

Evo Morales

We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia.

Dick Thompson

The point was initially to allow us to have access to these samples. It's not like WHO is trying to prevent scientists everywhere from getting this information.

Jimmy Carter

The overall concern is that 40 percent of the American people don't vote. Secondly, that there's a great deal of doubt in our country about the integrity of the electoral process. Those are the two basic issues. What can we do to address them? Obviously we want to have more access by Americans to the voting booth. And secondly, we want to make sure that the electoral process has integrity -- that it is not shot through with fraud.

Mallory Factor

The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. The high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term exponential negative implications for our economy.

Bruce Braley

The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.

Wendy Kopp

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

Irene Dunne

The picture postcard people printed a card of our house and the address years ago for the tourists but they made a mistake and took the next house.

Walter Jamieson

The overall work-force development strategy must address all of these concerns and more if the industry is going to be in a position to provide the kind of quality service and attention that our visitors will demand.

Bruce Braley

The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

Charles Koch

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

Cliff Stearns

Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans.

Douglas Conant

On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback.

Dick Armey

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

Abraham Lincoln

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Sandip Gupta

The overwhelming adoption of our solutions worldwide clearly demonstrates the demand for professional caliber software in the hosting market. We expect the significant growth that we experienced in the first quarter to continue its momentum in the remainder of the year.

Bruce Lipton

The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

Eric Betzig

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.

Todd Park

Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically.

Rochelle Nason

We are not going to agree to (Pathway's) adoption unless we have at least what we do now.

Nina Easton

Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice.

Yves Behar

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

Pieter Knook

We're at the tipping point of seeing exponential growth in this area, with a number of factors coming together to make this happen -- from less costly and more varied devices to wider adoption of mobile data among mobile professionals.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.

Torsten Wiesel

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Vidya Balan

All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.

Alex Campbell

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Dave Kasper

We're encouraged by the news today that Freddy's injury is indeed minor. He has already begun the rehabilitation process and we look forward to having him back in uniform in a matter of weeks.

Alice Oswald

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

Kate Warne

Today was -- and I expect tomorrow to be -- quiet. I think many people have already begun the Easter holiday and it would take a big surprise in something tomorrow for the market to move very strongly one way or the other.

Tom Stringfellow

Three major buyers of oil will emerge in the future. China, India and the United States. This will create interesting geopolitical scenarios we haven't begun to address.

Phil Gramm

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

Barack Obama

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Bobby Jindal

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Eduardo Paes

Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.

Douglas Rushkoff

Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their ads, and is willing to spend billions creating more reasons and ways for us to do so.

Pat Paulsen

Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?

Vano Merabishvili

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.

Ted Waitt

We plan to consistently execute this strategy through 2002 and exit the year as a robust, growing company with more than $1 billion in cash and an intensely satisfied customer base.

Sylvia Earle

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.

Park Seung

The polarization between households and the corporate sector is a phenomenon seen in the course of the economic restructuring process.

Eric Andre

I used to be a Geico Caveman for live events. I was a corporate mascot. It was the silliest job. It was actually awesome and fun, but it was retarded.

Colin Trevorrow

There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!

David Suzuki

The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.

Simon Sinek

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

Al Madrigal

I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse when I walk into businesses: 'That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.'

Vivek Wadhwa

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.

Justin Trudeau

I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.

Teresa Owens

The online and network services units work well together, so online customers taking away from corporate customers isn't an issue. We continually watch our network to ensure there is enough (capacity).

Nicholas Graham

We were hearing not only from members but also e-mail partners that they wanted a different way of delivering e-mail that would stand out in the inbox and would guarantee them delivery.

Martin Ackley

We are delivering the information to each local school district and their local school boards, who are representatives of the general public.

Charles Bickers

We are delivering everything that is ready to go.

Steve Baker

We'll be delivering what's in the lines as soon as we have the power back on.

Samuel Bodman

With the Reserve fully operational, we will be able to start delivering this oil as soon as tomorrow,

Gordon Brown

The initiative launched today is about delivering one of the great rights, the right of education.

John Varley

The profit growth in the first half demonstrates that our strategy is delivering strongly.

Stephanie Hall

We have really heavily invested our staff in delivering Flumist in the school system and we were going to be stretched kind of thin to be delivering inactivated vaccine at exactly the same time,

Jim Kelly

We have refocused the organization on delivering more to the membership. Today we are less about being an engine for revenue for events and more about increased value for our members through services that respond to our members' needs.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

P. J. O'Rourke

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

Mitchell Baker

Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.

Melina Mercouri

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

George Allen

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

Paul Cormier

We're really scaling this thing and putting in enterprise functionality.

Eric Kraus

We have never ventured globally into hair care, ... And our whole enterprise is on a global basis.

Richard Pierce

Yahoo! represented less than 2 percent of our total revenues, and if you look at the potential of the enterprise space and enterprise information portals, that market is very large.

Steve Stewart

The Enterprise Zone has something for everyone in those existing businesses.

William Shockley

An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.

Nell Minow

Yes, it's meaningful money, ... But it's still a fraction of what was lost.

John Tate

This number is probably just a fraction of what is needed in that marketplace.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

Bhagavad Gita

Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, and power; know that to be a manifestation of a fraction of My splendor.

The Talmud

Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence

Karen Ross

That's just a fraction of the rate we saw in the late 1990s.

Thomas Carlyle

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.

Clint Hurdle

Every year you show up here, you at least have a fraction of hope. This year there's a lot more substance to go with that hope. They know (the division) is open. It's time to make a statement on the field.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Greg Hill

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not particularly optimistic about the U.S. market in the next six months and next year.

Peter Hillyard

We are not going to plunge to $500 or $400. The market is going to stay within a price range of $540 and $650.

Charles Alexander

We did spot an opportunity in property at a time when the market was neglecting the sector.

Tim Wise

Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.

Ira Glass

I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

Louis Tomlinson

For me, Robbie Williams was a massive influence when I was growing up. But also Cheryl Cole. Being in her presence was intimidating, because she's so hot.

Dick Cheney

The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

Dick Cheney

America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction."..."We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems ballistic missiles that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

Paulo Coelho

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Jerry Little

We're kind of set up for mass production, I guess.

Carl Griffith

We could have a massive inundation of Port Arthur.

Peter O'Toole

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

J. A. Konrath

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Greg Sterling

This is mobile e-mail for the rest of us, who have normal or tiny screens.

Edward Zander

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,

Mark Taylor

Mobile and fixed-line services are also converging as rapidly as the worlds of voice and data.

Jon Tetzchner

With Opera Mini, most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

George Kafkarkou

Small solution providers are just as important to CA as the big solution provider. They make the market, and we are respectful of that.

Simon Cowell

You know what happened, she went, she went to a zoo, and a tiger, and I'm serious, scratched her.

Kurt Vonnegut

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Robert Irwin

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.

Carson Kressley

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Elias Canetti

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Scott Podsednik

There are a lot of things that went right for us this year. We start from scratch now.

Gerard Way

I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.

Ernest Bramah

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Mohammed Habib

We won 34 seats and we could have won even more had there not been wrongdoing.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

John Mayer

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

John Cage

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

Dan Rather

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Brittany Campbell

It has heated seats and a six-CD changer.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Amisha Patel

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

Darnell Bing

Yeah, I did (have the first score), but I try not to think about it. I just try to keep doing what I'm doing, try to be successful and come out with a victory in this game.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig von Mises

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

Ludwig von Mises

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Ludwig von Mises

The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.

Ludwig von Mises

All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

Kathy Lang

Our wireless routers are indoors, while the new networks' will be outside.

Clyde Evans

Wireless is really kind of where everyone's going.

Michael Mahoney

Wireless is on fire. I don't see what slows wireless down.

Greg Gorbatenko

Wireless is not a failsafe. It's a telecommunications accessory.

Patrick Whitesell

We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Al-Qaida is a worldwide organization. It's a continuous threat.

Christine Johnson

Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,