Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Patrick

Working with the Internet2 community, we will be building more powerful applications that will be feasible only on a backbone like Abilene. We hope this will lead customers into the next era of e-business as these applications migrate over to the commercial Internet.

Chaka Khan

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

Bob Barr

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Jonathan Tisch

We're interested in supporting workers who are the backbone of the industry.

Brian Schweitzer

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.

Charles Spurgeon

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

Betty White

I have the backbone of an eel.

Bear Grylls

My Christian faith is my backbone

Brian Billick

We've always talked about the pressure from the outside and contrasting that with Terrell Suggs . If that's a nickel role, you're talking 15-25 snaps. He's capable of doing more, but we have a lot of assets here to balance that out. If we can use him more, we will.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Scott Handy

We're more balanced than a Microsoft solution provider, who pretty much promotes Windows as the answer no matter what the question is.

Theo Brunner

We're more balanced scoring without Evan in the lineup. Everyone stepped up for us tonight and we're still a good team without Evan. Other teams don't recognize that and we just need to show them like we did tonight.

Mark Recchi

We're starting to figure it out. We've got a lot of new faces. We've got balance between young and old. And everybody's trying to push in the right direction to find the right way to play.

Nick Saban

We respect that, as long as it's taking into account the balance of how it's affecting the player.

Cary Thompson

We're going to try and build on this in-your-mug defense and continue moving the ball up the floor. We're going to have a deep bench and more balanced scoring. I'm looking forward to seeing that.

John Orrico

We're going to see the same thing happen in technology and telecom. Balance sheet constraints and problems are going to drive a lot of consolidation.

Chris Strathman

We're going to need more balance to win on Friday. But (Sweat) played real well tonight.

Brenda Davis

When I talk to Mark I have to constantly remind myself that he's just 13. And the Clearly family truly needs this blessing.

Richard Kaplan

We're standing out there for four days, and we're observing some runs that never came and some that were 20 to 50 minutes late, ... That is clearly unacceptable.

Kent Beck

Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

Ricardo Sanchez

What we're seeing here is clearly a continued attempt and a more concentrated effort by the enemy to try to get all the Iraqis that are cooperating with the coalition to break away and not provide us that support that is so crucial to getting to economic progress and the transition to sovereignty,

Maret Traber

What this clearly shows is that to perform their vital roles, vitamins C and E work together. They have a synergistic effect that will not be gained just by intake of one or the other, and adequate levels of these nutrients is especially important for people who smoke.

Eric Jackson

What this clearly illustrates is that when Scotland's two tiers of government work together they are capable of delivering for the people of Scotland.

Lonnie Nasatir

When we got word she was placed on the commission as a representative of the Nation of Islam, we were clearly concerned. This is a body aimed at eradicating hate. In Mr. Farrakhan's words over the years, he's actually espoused hate.

Jeff Kleintop

What he's coming through very clearly and saying is we will probably pause soon but don't assume we're done because we pause. ... But I think the market is just reacting to 'Hey, hey, Ben said we might be done soon'. Whenever you take a little uncertainty out of the picture, well, the market is going to like that.

David Forst

We felt like he needed to get everyday at-bats to break out of his slump, and that's clearly not going to happen in the big leagues.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Marshall Cohen

When it becomes the third week, the novelty is going to wear off, but the consumers will still be buying one more item just because of the fact that they're going to be having ... more in their pocket. That one item is going to add up and it is going to benefit the retailer more than the consumer.

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.

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

John Davidson

What they say may have an impact tomorrow, but the dominant topic on investors' minds right now starts with an 'I' and it's not Intel. Both businesses and consumers are hesitant to make any moves until there's progress on Iraq.

Eric Hoffman

We found that most consumers classified themselves as 'novices' or 'apprentices' when it comes to vehicle financing and admit to feeling uninformed when it comes to that process. Our mission at AWARE is to reach out to and be a resource for all Americans who are thinking about buying another vehicle.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Delos Smith

We boosted economic growth in one quarter, but that doesn't mean it's sustainable. We still have a long-range view that the economy is changing, and consumers will have to adjust to it.

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.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

David Snowden

We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.

Jim Rutherford

We've always taken the position at this rookie camp that we'll give opportunities to guys who deserve them. Estrada continued to play well. He deserved to go.

Toni Simonetti

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

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. I think the men's team will continue to get stronger and stronger and we'll be winning many gold medals in the future.

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

Peter Larson

We're making some improvements as to where the decision points on the highways are going to be. We are getting rid of the weave actions that currently happen between the Chenengo River and Interchange 7. At Interchange 4 with Route 7. We're adding lanes where necessary to improve the capacity of the highway.

Alan Rifkin

We remain very positive on the home improvement sector and Home Depot's prospects, particularly given current valuation levels. Home Depot shares are currently trading in line with the five-year historic low forward price-to-earnings ratio, based on consensus estimates.

Sung Sohn

We're going to get an economic boost from not only production, but from inventory buildup during the current quarter, and probably for the balance of this year.

Kenzo Tange

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

Gary Bardini

What we're living on is a system that has been built over 100 years. It certainly is not up to the current practices that we would do in levee design, so we're doing our best with resources available to make the necessary improvements.

Jim Davis

What 9/11 represents to us was not only an opportunity to look at new product offerings, but an opportunity to extend current product offerings.

Dave Gardner

We wrote the first line of code at 11 p.m. Wednesday night. Then we wrote the first line of code for the current code base Saturday at noon, and we completed that code Sunday at 9 p.m..

Mike Cooke

We would seriously question the judgment of any board member or administrator who would have this community believe that they can simply fire the current employees and contract with an outside company to bring in strangers to work in our schools, and still provide the same degree of quality, safety and service that our current custodians and head custodians provide.

Katie Simons

What has kept it current all these years is that it's so true to family relationships and the way we hurt the people who are closest to us.

Vicente Fox

When it comes down to it, for Mexico, the FTAA means being able to go forward toward development, in the fight against poverty, in job creation and economic growth,

Jim Wicklund

We remain positive based on economic activity and E&P spending; we're also positive on 2007 but see some risk to E&P spending given the potential squeeze on returns (with) a possible moderation in commodity prices in '07. Visibility remains too good to worry too early, however.

Gene Hall

We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.

John Hughs

We're getting to the year-end period and stocks are starting to drift. You're seeing that today, ... There's still a lot of uncertainty about the economy and about the change in Bush's economic team. We're also coming off a period where the Dow rose for 8 weeks and so you're seeing a little pullback. You saw it last week and I think it's continuing.

Lara Rhame

We're getting to a phase where European data could have more of an impact because a solid U.S. economic scenario is so widely expected. The markets are also very thin, so traders aren't taking on large amounts of risk.

Sung Sohn

We're going to get an economic boost from not only production, but from inventory buildup during the current quarter, and probably for the balance of this year.

Kent Beck

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

Peter Cardillo

What we're seeing here is investors becoming increasingly nervous, awaiting the economic data tomorrow (Thursday). Profit warnings and future growth (concerns) are overshadowing the enthusiasm that we saw develop late yesterday -- it's a feeding process.

Ricardo Sanchez

What we're seeing here is clearly a continued attempt and a more concentrated effort by the enemy to try to get all the Iraqis that are cooperating with the coalition to break away and not provide us that support that is so crucial to getting to economic progress and the transition to sovereignty,

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,

David Snowden

We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.

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.

Jesse Segall

When it comes down to a trial, we're going to try go get people down to support him. He's one of the nicest kids ever. He deserves our support.

Larry Ellison

We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Jose Rios

We're marching to support the people who come here to work for a better life. This is what we're all fighting for.

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.

Jim Pennekamp

We remain supportive of the project. There's been a significant amount already spent... (Shaw has) performed admirably in all this. The challenge is moving forward with a financial plan.

Cindy Anderson

When we went on that run in the third I thought we had it. But they sustained it and came right back out and we couldn't run our offense, and that's a tribute to their defense.

Thomas Pickering

We believe we have developed a relationship with Russia that can sustain controversy, differences and difficulties, however sharp they may become,

Tom Harrison

We're going to have to be able to take control of the ball. We're going to have to be able to sustain some drives. Last year, we would have a couple of first downs and then have a fizzle, especially in the second half.

Mel Jr

Workout numbers for offensive linemen historically have been very overrated. That's when you get back to who can sustain a block and stay on his feet and give you the fire you need. You always look at who is a true football player in this draft. You throw out the workout numbers, and Jason Spitz from Louisville will be one of those guys.

Greg Hawkins

We experienced 1GB/sec., and we can handle 100M bit/sec. on a typical strong day operating at 30% capacity. During the attack, we had eight to 10 times regular capacity, and no one can sustain that.

Leonard Hamilton

We're finally grasping the big picture. That's why this opportunity is so important for us now. If we can continue to keep playing with that focus, then we'll become more consistent and we'll be building on something that can sustain us regardless of who we're playing and hopefully into the future.

Timothy Parker

We're fortunate that we've been able to build a fan base brick by brick. We never got the gold or platinum record. But through touring and just putting out music our fan base has gotten stronger and stronger to where it's sustaining (itself) without that big pop hit.

Brad Dean

We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level.

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Stan Conte

We're going to play a lot off of what Barry tells us, because he's the only one who knows how his knee is going to feel. It's always going to be a day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to- month thing. You can't help but be pleased that he came here, he did some good stuff, he left, and we'll see how it is tomorrow.

H. Hart

What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

Jeff Cheah

What all this tells us and is certainly telling the Fed is that maybe we need to examine what the sustainable growth rate really is. The risk is that we have an economy that is growing at a pace that historically suggests we should see inflation pressures, but we're not seeing that yet.

Simon Hoggart

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

Erick Young

We believe this process of forming stars in a cluster was exactly the same thing that happened with our very own sun 4 1/2 billion years ago. It tells us a lot about the history of our own solar system.

Tom O'Neil

What's not here are those shows on the WB, like 'The Gilmore Girls,' which the TV Critics Association of America tells us is the best show on television, ... Why didn't it get any Emmy nominations? And what about 'Scrubs'? ... It's holding its own, critics love it, viewers love it, but Emmy voters aren't watching it, because it's too young skewing, and the geezer Emmy voters have a demographic a little north of what 'Scrubs' viewers are.

Bee Wilson

Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.

Matt Rossell

We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the furs were labeled and consumers could make a choice with all of the information, I think the protest would end.

Lisa Cholodenko

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.