Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Blew

Our seniors have made it to this game every year, if not farther. This has been a successful group and I'm certainly disappointed for them that we didn't win, because we played so hard, but I could never be disappointed in this group. They've achieved so much this year and have done so much as a group, they'll always be special.

Suzanne Somers

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

Catherine Arnold

This is half the savings that Pfizer achieved with its recently announced program.

Lawrence Halprin

This isn't a memorial to him as a person. It's a memorial to what he achieved as our leader. It's a way of communicating to this country what he stood for.

Evelyn Keyes

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

Joseph Johnson

We developed this product specifically to meet the military's need for an affordable communications OTM solution. By combining the characteristics of new X-Band satellites and our heritage of designing to military specification requirements and maximizing highly reliable COTS technology, we have achieved that goal.

Jack O'Connell

The fact that more than half of our students have not yet achieved proficiency on the state's content standards, and that a wide achievement gap continues, shows how much work still needs to be done,

Carl Yankowski

The Palm team again delivered stellar results on multiple fronts: revenue, units shipped, profitability, and content and platform momentum. This is our third consecutive quarter of 100-percent-plus year-over-year revenue growth, and we achieved it in an environment of increased competition and continued component constraints.

Viktor Yushchenko

Europe has shown us what can be achieved with solidarity, tolerance and mutual understanding,

Frank Nothaft

As a matter of fact, it looks as though 1998 will register the lowest annual mortgage rates in 30 years.

W. Hull

The businesses in this area are very good about supporting our efforts because it benefits them as well as us. Their contributions are very important because our annual operating costs are between $100,000 and $150,000.

Vince Farrell

Production is declining at about a 4 percent annual rate right now while consumption is increasing between 2 and 4 percent. So inevitably the price is going to have to go up.

Mike Phelan

Our annual customer retention rate is approximately 90 percent, and we believe our training program has a lot to do with such a high percentage. In our field, your performance is the only thing that matters to your client. Our program focuses on training our employees to become top-notch security officers while also preparing them for roles in management. In the long term, we train our officers because it is essential to servicing our clients, to retaining the best employees and to building a culture of excellence.

Ron Allen

Our annual 12-goal tournament is a solid second to IPW. The 12-goal tournaments are great for speed and excitement.

Kerri Coletta

During our annual Christmas dinner, we put together eight Christmas food baskets. We donated them to the Church of God Shalom on Chad Brown to be distributed in the surrounding community.

Ed Stansfield

Despite the sharp jump in prices, August's data do not change the picture of a strong downward trend in the annual rate of house price inflation,

Annette Beacher

Annual wages growth is still accelerating. It is premature to talk of interest-rate cuts while such stretched capacity still exists.

Kelly Reed

The staff and administration have put forth a great deal of time and effort into ensuring South Routt School District reaches the benchmarks prescribed for annual yearly progress, ... I applaud their efforts, and while we are gratified with our progress thus far, we are not content and will continue to refine our goals in providing our students with the finest educational opportunities available.

Reed Hundt

As a result of this order and the WTO agreement, we predict that the average price of an international call will drop from 88 cents today to 20 cents five years from now,

Brad Soderberg

The bottom line is, we didn't make shots. It's just disappointing that we played as well as we did defensively, and yet it's a 10-point loss. And we missed free throws. It's just not good enough if you want to beat good teams. You've got to play complete basketball, not just defend, not just rebound, it's got to be complete. We're either going to get it or we're going to continue to be a .500 team. We're either going to figure it out or remain an average program.

Tom Potiowsky

Average wages are now growing at about the same level of inflation. And as the economy continues to expand, we expect this trend to continue to improve.

Duane Campbell

Average is probably about 10 hours of effort to be able to ride around the block.

Scott Pattee

Average is a matter of perspective, and this year, average is looking pretty good.

James Knightley

Average earnings growth was far softer than anticipated. It remained at 3.5% ... and is well below the 4.5% rate that the Bank of England has in the past considered compatible with its inflation forecast.

Mike Pence

Average Americans in all 50 states are reaching into their pocketbooks and investing in relief and recovery efforts. The power and symbol of members of Congress doing that, regardless of the size of the contribution, could be very important.

James A. Moore

Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.

John Hooper

As long as the results are there, it probably won't change. If there's an impact in buying from my customers, I'll act accordingly. For the average person out there, they're probably starting to feel it.

Kevin McCarthy

Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.

David Schardt

People who go to the Web site for more information and read that thinking they're getting an objective, balanced view are going to be misled and fooled.

Mike Stock

Our defense got a little loose and we tightened things up the last couple days at practice. It was a nice defensive effort. It was a team effort. Nice balance on offense and good defense.

Andy Reid

Offensively, I have to do a better job on my side of getting this thing a bit more balanced up with the run-pass ratio, ... I'll go back to the drawing board and work on that and see if we can't do a better job offensively.

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

Matt Birk

The more balance you can get, the more success you can have. And the more dangerous you can become.

Larry Lang

Competition for the delivery of mobile voice and data services is becoming increasingly fierce. By deploying Cisco's Content Billing solution, mobile operators can provide their customers with a myriad of payment options to strike the ideal balance for the billing of voice, messaging, multimedia, games, Web and other mobile services.

Earl Graves

Companies have budgets to balance as well, but unlike the federal government, we can go out of business.

Mary Osako

Companies that choose to enter the market in the future will face the same struggle to effectively balance what they believe which laws they must obey.

Sam Mitchell

Probably 80 per cent of it (is due to youth and inexperience). They come out with veteran guys who understand the league and know how to play. We come out with second-year guys, it's tough.

Mark Mulder

Compared to what it was yesterday, it's 100 per cent better, but it's still not good enough. I still can't quite look far enough to pick up the catcher.

Jeremy Williams

Coach always tells us to hit it where it's pitched. The first one was down the middle and I hit it to center field. The next one was high so I took it opposite field.

Ed Wolverton

Despite their decision, downtown still remains the dominant legal center of the region.

Chris Wright

A one-in-100-year flood has (a) 1 per cent chance in any year. On some years all of the ducks line up together, so to speak.

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Steven Aftergood

an implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator of the nation's intelligence production.

Zhang Guobao

And the proportion will increase to 10 per cent by 2020.

Craig Barrett

The semiconductor industry faces many technical challenges that need to be addressed if we are to maintain the rate of progress that has been the hallmark of our industry. The Focus Center Program is designed to create a nationwide multiuniversity network of research centers that will help keep the United States and U.S. semiconductor firms at the front of the global microelectronics revolution.

Woody Allen

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

Doug Ellin

The show has always been about the shallow moment-by-moment existence of life in the business. But we keep discovering subtleties, like, in Hollywood, even a guy who makes $5 million is constantly insecure and struggling.

Terrence Roberts

The summer was just horrible after that because you're constantly thinking about that game and you can't wait for the next season. We definitely don't want to go out like we did last year.

Bruce Tulgan

The thing that people need to remember is that downsizing may be back on the front pages, but the downsizing never slowed down. Downsizing has been a constant and regular feature of the new working world, and it will continue to be.

Mike Nichols

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

Mike McGann

The thing is with Sauk, is they do have some holes. They're constantly moving their lineup around and it's hard to keep sync on what they are going to do.

Maria Semple

The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.

Bob Murray

The one constant in all of this is our defense has been a Steady-Eddie,

Dan Taylor

After I threw the first time, we looked at tapes and digested what I was doing wrong. Over the past few weeks, we fixed my problems. It's just a constant work in progress.

Toni Sacconaghi

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

David Haas

The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Kobita Desai

The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The industry will have 125 million subscribers by the current year end.

Brenda Becker

We've been here since 1979. And we're taking a look at what our current residents are looking for in services. It Just felt like it was time for us to make a few small changes.

Roy Lind

The facility is just too old, and it doesn't meet all the current standards.

Jorma Ollila

Current visibility suggest overall market volume for 2002 will reach our earlier eexpectations of 400 million units sold.

Patricio Bernal

Current systems are useless as they record data once every month or two months. You need to record the data every 30 seconds.

Anthony Topazi

Current organizations have served us well, but they are not going to get us to the next level where we need to be. We need more strength and more focused work on the real public-policy issues.

Brian Giorgis

Once we got it going in December ? the Idaho win was huge ? we thought we were good.

Jesse Moore

December 20th was the last time we had any appreciable rain. We had about a quarter-inch over the area. That wasn't enough to help that much.

Paul Dergarabedian

November and December are pound-for-pound just as important as the summer, ... You see about 20 percent of the gross for the year in about seven or eight weeks. And this year looks to me to be a strong finish to a year that has really had its ups and downs.

Vyacheslav Davidenko

Following a request from its sponsor (the ESA), the launch has been put back from December 26 to December 28.

Kevin Honea

We had a similar motorcycle fatality in that exact same spot on December 4. The tire tracks for the two were only about a foot apart. It is a negotiable, well-marked curve, however.

Kurt Kawafuchi

What it shows at the end of December is the economy is very strong.

Shinzo Abe

On the 26th of December of last year, I took office for my second term as prime minister. And it is the first time ever since then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, during the occupation period, that a prime minister is taking this position for the second time with a number of years in between.

Bob Groves

One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.

Brian Halla

Now that we have the months of December and January finished, we felt it necessary to factor those results into our earlier projections and issue this update.

Eckhart Tolle

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Sohrab Sepehri

Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....

Jose Barroso

need to do more to explain the true dimension of what is at stake, and the nature of the solutions which only Europe can bring.

Bob Watters

Since 9/11, (security) has taken on new dimensions that they didn't have before. There are many different layers of security in the process.

Cristela Alonzo

I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

Herbert Marcuse

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

Jean Giraud

Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.

Frank Herbert

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

Bob Bone

I don't see any dimension that Lost in the Fog doesn't have. That's the trouble. Do you go after him early? Do you wait and make a run? It looks like no matter what you do, that horse can adjust.

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Sean Comey

This is not a lot to reassure the consumer. The only upside to high prices is that it should ensure a steady supply because there is an economic incentive to produce and ship it.

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Winston Churchill

The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

Keith Brooking

You've got to respect that decision, ... It would have been tough to come in here and give it everything, knowing your job was ending at the end of the year.

Britani Pittullo

Last season, people were getting hurt. We're ending this season at a high.

Tom O'Neil

I think finally it will get its due, because it's part three. It's like a Hollywood ending to a great Hollywood story,

George W. Bush

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Beth Miller

That was a nice ending for her after what happened last year. She's playing much better now.

Tim Whitehead

Most importantly we didn't quit. We played hard and fought back. Unfortunately it didn't have the storybook ending that we had hoped, but at the same time we proved something to ourselves that we can come back and that the game is never over. Those are valuable lessons.

Bud Ogden

We couldn't have written an ending to this rivalry better. From our perspective, we snatched a victory out of their grasp.

Vernell Crittendon

We were not able to find a licensed professional that was willing to inject medication intravenously, ending the life of a human being.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Mike Lordemann

Our seniors have won two state championships and been to a final four. They know what it's like to win, they know how to win, (and) when they step on the field they expect to win. For them to have that experience and pass it on to our younger kids is invaluable.

Michael Phelps

People really expect to get news and information for free. They get it free on TV, they get it free on the web, and there's no reason they shouldn't get it free in the newspaper.

Kofi Annan

peoples look to you to solve problems, expect you to work together as governments ... with other institutions.

Jim Struzzi

People can expect pretty much the same scenario.

Alan Faneca

People don't really expect that from us. They know we're trying to get the run going. Maybe they're thinking that a little too much. We're able to open up a little bit.

Martin Nissenbaum

People don't expect it. The presumption is that when you pay taxes that are deductible you won't have to pay tax again. Just having a lot of kids can put you into the AMT.

Martin Nissenbaum

People don't expect it, ... The presumption is that when you pay taxes that are deductible you won't have to pay tax again. Just having a lot of kids can put you into the AMT.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Danielle Clark

The way our team plays, it opens up possibilities for me to score. We play so five people can score. We?re not just looking for one person.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Naeem Wahid

People are unwinding growth expectations and interest rate expectations,

Ray Rund

People are taking this as a signal. In this case, it's kind of pro-growth stock. The Nasdaq has the most growth stocks, and when interest rates stabilize, or go down, people start to think of growth as being worth more.

Terrence Gabriel

People feel the growth is there whether you push rates up to 6.50 percent or 6.80 percent.

David Manning

Of the various alternatives, this one was the growth story more than any others.

Jesper Koll

The moment American growth slows down below, say, 2 percent, trade pressures are not just something that we talk about but are something that are really going to hit policy makers.

Harold S. Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

Harold Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Alan Greenspan

a process that has undoubtedly improved national productivity growth and standards of living.

David Martin

The seniors have their own settings, which shows the growth and improvement they've made over the last three years.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

T. Harv Eker

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Ron Paul

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Plautus

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Felipe Alou

Sometimes, ... you have to take less to get more.

Francis Borrego

Right now, we are playing with less than two-thirds of the team.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Amber Tamblyn

Being a performer myself I can understand that, but I think that poetry, for me, might be less about the performance and more about the words.

James Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted

Tomas Taterka

This was more or less expected, more or less priced in.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Brian Black

This is not just a program doing its own thing. We want to be a part of the whole success plan of the school.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Dean Darling

That's what we plan to do and we'll take this into consideration then.

Jack Lamb

That's not a plan that I would support at all. I think there are other things we can do.

Larry Giangrosso

You never plan for something like this to happen.

Pam Baker

You never plan anything for the third Saturday in April.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Diane Screnci

At some point, all three of them will be under consideration at the same time.

Ron Ziegler

As long as we can keep two or three people, we'll be here.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Nancy Mulroy

That's illegal. She was told two or three times.

Nikesh Arora

That should be a win-win-win for all three of us.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Dominic Monaghan

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Dave Ramsey

You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

Todd Fischer

You've had all year to do it and, hopefully, it doesn't come down to one tournament.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.