Valley Quotations

I was a Valley girl; I hung out, and through a photographer friend. I met Peter Douglas, who was one of Kirk Douglas's kids. He introduced me to Sam Spiegel.

Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.

I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.

We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

In 2007, when my husband Damian Woetzel took on the artistic direction at the Vail Valley International Dance Festival, we both felt it was important to offer the entire Vail community access to dance.

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves.

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

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

What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources.

One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

I look forward to doing everything I can in my new role to help bring more and more of the best talent and best ideas from Silicon Valley and across the nation into government.

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.

Before I lived in America, my husband and I did a Californian road trip. We took a month, starting off in L.A. I love the landscapes of California: one moment you're in the desert, the next you're up in the Napa Valley or by the water in Big Bear.

You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

'Crash' was incredibly personal to me. So was 'In the Valley of Elah.' There were things in 'The Next Three Days' that were questions I was asking myself but couldn't answer, like how far would you go for love? Can you believe in somebody who can't even believe in themselves? But this is highly personal.

You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the theater for the 'In the Valley of Elah.' I knew they might not want to see it, but I still had to the movie; I felt very strongly about it. Wanting to keep telling a good story is what you want to do, a compelling story.

One of the many pluses about these opportunities is that these jobs provide people a chance to work where they live. Successful applicants won't have the rush-hour hassles that confront many Southeast Valley residents who work in Phoenix or other parts of the Valley.

Newark Valley is big inside, and they got a lot of good looks and offensive rebounds. We really struggled from the perimeter.

Nobody escapes from this. Everyone in the valley is exposed to some degree. But there are a lot of options to combat this, and the benefits of improving the air quality are substantial.

I would probably venture to believe that it would be what Mississippi Valley State did some years ago with their offense (featuring quarterback Willie Totten and wide receiver Jerry Rice). I think some of it has come from the northwest portion of the country.

Like all of us, I don't think Facebook is 100% evil, but there are aspects of it that move towards evilness. It's true of all the major Silicon Valley companies, that there are aspects to all of them that move towards evilness, but I don't believe they're 100% evil.

One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.

One year, that really isn't a complete analysis. You've got to do it every year. I think for both the Valley and us some of the other guys that haven't advanced ... I think the basketball community realizes there's great parity out there.

Monroe has a couple of good kids back, so it will probably be the two of us in our division. Central Valley has always been a tough course for us.

Potentially on a very hot day in the Central Valley or Southern California, with very stagnant air, it might lead to a violation of federal ozone standards. But this is an emergency situation. ... And the consequences of the hurricane here are minor compared with what is happening in the Mississippi Delta.

People would say that if we played anybody, any of the other 31 teams, that Wyoming Valley West doesn't stand a chance. But we scrimmaged Pocono Mountain East with a 6-9 kid and held our own.

Petaluma's unique problem is that it is geographically isolated, and has only one hospital (Petaluma Valley Hospital). By comparison, Santa Rosa has a hospital every couple of miles.

Nobody has confidence in us but our team. They knock the Missouri Valley but not too many teams want to play us.

Now that I'm nearing the end of my college career I'm looking for jobs. I've noticed this valley doesn't offer that much for me.

People will race our event simply because of the terrain and scenery in the (Shenandoah) Valley and the people.

Right across the road from us is a cemetery. Grant Wood sat in that cemetery and painted one of his famous valley paintings.

My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere.

I don't feel that we're too confident. We've seen their record, that the Missouri Valley Conference is an excellent conference even though they don't get a whole lot of recognition. We know they've knocked off some big teams. We know they're more than capable of pulling some upsets.

I don't know what will be in the new regulations package. We gathered information from the public last week from Central Valley anglers in Yuba City and will conduct another open session this week.

If we're healthy and have everyone back, it's going to be a good match. Golden Valley is the defending champ, and they have everyone back, but they're beatable.

If we play like we did in the second half against Indio and most of the game against Coachella Valley and Cathedral City we should be in good shape.

Last year we did have flooding in Cache Valley and Brigham City.

Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.

Losing Hidden Valley would be not a good thing. No question he's in a difficult position, certainly. We have an opportunity to address that situation through the regional master plan.

We're not dependent on just one line or grade of paper. We have a very diverse paper industry in the Fox Valley from fine paper to paper board to tissue. When there are fluctuating markets in one segment, usually the others offset any downturns.

The Planning Commission plans to finish Fall Creek and Cook Valley Road which contains area of about 4,000 people.

Lewis Drug is a partnership that we've done with several Sioux Valley clinics.

Much of the valley has been at or below freezing for the last three days.

Since its inception, the Greater Valley Area Crime Stoppers has received tips that have led to many arrests as well as the recovery and seizure of more than $565,000 in drugs and property. The majority of these tips have resulted in felony arrests. All the counties in Alabama should have this tool available to them to help support their law enforcement agencies.

My kids feel vindicated. Losing the dual meet to Valley was rough. They weren't too good of sports after beating us, and my kids didn't forget that.

MegaHertz is pleased to build upon our successful relationship with Grass Valley and expand the breadth of the company's distribution through the addition of Bend Broadband. We are confident that Grass Valley's compelling architecture and superior compression technology will exceed Bend Broadband's expectations.

Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and probably Creighton and Missouri State should be in (the NCAA Tournament).

Mountain Valley has a lot of seasoned wrestlers. They just out-strengthened us in a few weight classes. They have stronger kids and when you have two wrestlers with the same knowledge and same experience and one of them is stronger, the stronger one is usually going to win.

We had been unable to persuade any of the natives of Wellington Valley to accompany us as guides, on our leaving that settlement.

Whenever you're playing against a team like Johnstown or even River Valley in the tournament, you've got to play your best game. We proved that last year when we went up against Highland in the first round and barely beat them (39-37). This time of year, there's no margin for error.

Maggie Valley will work out its political issues.

Many people like to make New Year's Eve an experience rather than marking it with a single event. The Mesa Symphony's annual New Year's Eve concert is always packed because it allows East Valley residents to start the celebration a little bit early.

Many parts of our Central Valley have significantly lower levels of flood protection than similar areas in the nation,

Silicon Valley certainly has a very cheap funding base that makes a lot more money in rising rate environment. Comerica is kind of pure play on commercial lending side.

Silicon Valley has become a clearinghouse, an intermediate station on the way to producing products, ideas and companies.

Silicon Valley has been following this saga for many years. Intel had the technology lead and the manufacturing lead, then it had the brand lead. I got used to the idea that Intel was always one step ahead, but A.M.D. finally demonstrated that to be not the case, and the market is having to admit that to itself.

Silicon Valley has gone to India. I'm dead serious. A lot of the jobs and growth have gone offshore.

Silicon Valley has some worldwide power players. It's a good place to be again.

Silicon Valley is a hotbed of innovation in wireless technologies. Establishing a ubiquitous network will enable the deployment of a new generation of broadband services for our entire community, including small businesses, schools, non-profits, and all the citizens of our region.

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.

Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.

She used to be the queen in the castle on the hill, looking down on everyone else in the valley, ... Now she's in the valley with everyone else, fighting it out on a level terrain.

She wants to set Valley records this year. She wants to break every record of every meet she competes in, if she could.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

We won our pool, then lost in the first round of the playoffs to Plum. It was a bit disappointing, but we're hoping to do much better at Saturday's Seneca Valley tournament.

We won't be out of Valley River altogether.

We've never beaten Valley in the tournament, We've always lost to them even when I was playing. We've probably played them about six times and always lost. Same as Hyde we've never beaten them, either. This was a long time coming.

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm.

I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm. I would tell people, like any earthquake in California, to consider it as a reminder to get the battery and food and water and everything. But I don't think there's a big danger from it.

There are so many women from throughout the Mon Valley who have distinguished themselves in a variety of successful careers. Today we are directing our attention to four who made their marks in the entertainment business, but we really want to expand this recognition in the future to include women from other communities in the Valley.

Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

Great Valley is very disciplined. You can see it offensively, especially.

I am self-taught; I studied for a few years and then I gave up, ... Then, seven or eight years passed, and I got transferred here to the Valley (from El Paso) and we had Brazilians.

I did an internship in the Silicon Valley during the Internet boom. I couldn't imagine sitting in a cubicle the rest of my life, so I gave acting a try. I would have been happy doing theater and making nothing.

I feel that Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley is strong and on the right path for establishing an institution that will thrive for many years to come.

I can't speak for the kids, but probably every one of them, if given a choice between being on the first team or Player of the Year or going 16-0 in the Valley for the first time would pick going unbeaten.

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

I am delighted to hear that athletes of the Delaware Valley will now have access to the resources and knowledge that Todd brings to the table.

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?