Famous Quotes & Sayings

David McSweeney

I would support the full investigation of this matter and all of the national security issues at a minimum, but I would oppose turning over control of such important assets ... to a company owned by a foreign government.

Aaron Brown

There are still an awful lot of assets that have been evaporated but not written down. People are looking for a quarter with bad news so they can write it all off at once. Asset quality is lower than it has ever been.

Peter Schiff

What will most likely occur is a long overdue loss of confidence in financial assets in general, particularly those denominated in U.S. dollars.

Eivind Reiten

Having paid for these assets we'll still remain within the long-term gearing target the board has set.

Allison Davis

Having lost all of their crops last winter, they have managed this year by selling off their assets to purchase food. They must wait two more months before this year's crops come in, but it will be the hardest two months, here at the end of the farming cycle.

Willie Randolph

He's a guy, overall, that gives us more assets in that spot. Miguel played well for us early in the year, and he can always go out there and grind and claw and do certain things. But he did come here to be backup guy. If Kaz can finish up strong, the way he's swinging right now, it would be nice for us.

Frank Lesh

Gold has regained its status as an investment vehicle. It's one of the better performing assets in 2005, and I expect gold to work up to $600 next year.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

M. Wolfe

I think the one thing people are missing is the one thing that is attracting Hilton: the hotel operations. They could be setting up a sale of core assets in the Sheraton brand,

Bob Rogers

I was looking at the stats (from 2004). And there were an awful lot of kills we're going to need to get elsewhere now.

Teju Cole

I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.

Richard Aboulafia

Keeping costs down and getting close to the customer makes an awful lot of sense when the revenue environment is flattening.

Joseph Hansen

I think it just showed homosexuals that being bold, being brave, coming out, you know, was not going to have the awful results that everybody always feared. That those days were passed, they were behind us. And that was a thrilling day; that was a thrilling day.

Jerry Reinsdorf

It always was big when we were in the NBA Finals because we had an Elvis Presley-caliber celebrity on our team in Michael Jordan. But the World Series is much bigger. I've never seen Chicago this excited. Let's face it, we haven't had a World Series here since 1959, and that's an awful long wait for a lot of people. Winning all those championships with the Bulls was great, but it would be the ultimate of my sports career if we win a world championship.

Tyrone Willingham

He just came up to me, ... It was awful nice of him to come away from his team, to take the time.

Spencer Abraham

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Larry Krystkowiak

Guys are feeling pretty good, but it's on now. We've got 15 games before any postseason stuff, and there's not one game in that stretch that doesn't mean an awful lot.

G. Chesterton

God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shop/ And go to inns to dine.

Keke Palmer

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Katy Perry

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

John Huston

I was in such a bad position probably a couple of months ago I just decided to start playing every week. I wanted to see if I could kind of get some sort of a feel for the game back.... I've started playing a little better.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Jozef Balej

I was in really bad pain, it was getting worse and worse every minute. I couldn't even walk so they put me in a chair. Overnight, I pretty much passed out because of the pain. They couldn't give me any morphine or anything because they didn't know what was wrong with me.

Silas Weir Mitchell

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

Steven Klein

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Flavio Briatore

I was looking at the No. 1. That's the only thing I was looking at.

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Dan Bonner

Just looking at the process, and seeing how things worked, I just thought that I would like to get involved.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

Ronald Allen

I would think that (61/2 years) would be the lower limit. After all, Ryan is more responsible for this than Fawell is.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

Morgan Stanley

In our opinion, the strategic rationale is sound and price paid is lower than what we would have anticipated.

Dan Houston

Individuals who are targeting a lower replacement ratio will see a significant reduction in their standard of living.

Donald Parker

If not, another suggestion that has been made is to lower the speed limit.

Karen Ignagni

In many cases, the plans have negotiated lower rates than Medicaid with pharmaceutical companies.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Barry Hyman

I think it's emotional, because all the news out today is already known.

Jonathan Klein

We report the news. Fox talks about the news.

Michael Holland

I think what stocks are reflecting, especially with respect to the Nasdaq, is they've incorporated the worst news.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

R. Ingram

I watched the news and read the newspaper with my dad,

Michelle Williams

I went to sleep with the news every night,

Saifur Rahman

I don't know anything about it but I am worried like you going through the newspaper reports.

Mark Dubach

I don't know that it was easy, but it's just nice to have the newspaper here and get a win, because we were 0-2.

Rob Brown

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Igor Shpilband

I think they just ran out of steam. I think they have the same quality of skating that the Russians do, and that it's totally comparable, but they just made some mistakes.

William Wilberforce

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Wittman

Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Warren Moon

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

Joe Johnson

In the third quarter they wanted it more than we did.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Michael Capellas

The first six weeks of the quarter were especially challenging.

Eric Ross

The first quarter was a little better than I was expecting. The second-quarter (estimate) was worse than I modeled. We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Randall Godfrey

You can't go to 0-3. This first quarter of the season is so important. We have to at least get even.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Dustin Hoffman

The Meyer Lansky part was written for you. I'll do it if I'm available.

Leslie Mann

Written by a woman automatically is better.

Constance Zimmer

You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin.

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

Deborah Moggach

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

Steve Harley

I've written more than one song, you know.