Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Adams

Any exposed piping, go ahead and cover it with foam insulation.

Ian Shepherdson

As far as we can tell, confidence now seems to have run a bit ahead of the improvement in the stock market, and the failure of the Nasdaq and Dow to make further progress in recent weeks makes it doubtful that confidence will continue to rise at the May pace. The sharp rise in unemployment is likely to become a negative factor, too.

Susan Kalla

As far as technological innovation they are ahead of the Bells. Whether they can leverage the technology to put them on an even position with the Bells -- it's possible but not probable.

David Goodwin

As developers, we have to keep a little ahead of the game, ... This is an area that's on the move.

Priscilla Feral

As far as a tourism boycott which I had called off, it will be organized again. As much as we are floored to get the news, we are determined to go ahead and keep working.

Michael J. Anderson

As good as 'Twin Peaks' was, and I mean, it's a superb work that's way ahead of its time, and we've never caught up, and we never will... I mean, we will never catch up to 'Twin Peaks.'

Michael Cuggino

As a general rule, techs got ahead of themselves last year. There's a 'priced to perfection' mentality with tech now.

Kimberly Harris

The bottom line is we are working to give our customers and our utility more energy independence. Over the long term we're trying to shield our customers, as much as we can, from the financial stings an unstable energy market can inflict. The way to do that, we believe, is to plan ahead -- to invest now and secure the energy resources and infrastructure needed to serve our region long into the future.

Phil Singer

The bottom line is that if you're an average American, it's pretty hard to get heard by George Bush and get ahead in today's economy. But if you're a big contributor, or a powerful corporate interest, you get heard loud and clear.

Frank Vargo

As helpful as these individual steps are, they need to be followed by systemic changes that will put our trade relationship on a more fair basis.

Steve Letarte

As far as pumping up the team, we reorganized a little personnel on the team. I'm excited with the changes we've made.

Jon Cox

As expected, (there was) some confusion about the impact of IFRS changes but the underlying result was solid given the impact from negative currency and higher commodity prices.

Candace Smith

The big question is looking at the cost of all this. Is it worth making the changes or retiring old cars? The cost of this could be well over $2 million.

Raj Desai

A vehicle can be used for 10 years, but technology changes every two years or less.

Spanish Proverbs

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

Spanish Proverb

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never

Nina Olson

As it stands now, there is more testing for a plumber or a person who cuts your hair or who changes locks than for someone who files your tax return.

Bruce Buchanan

Reading the tea leaves of what they have been saying, there are more changes coming.

Peter Dixon

A second half recovery has already been priced in and we are well into the quarterly reporting season. The economic data due out this week will be pivotal and if it does come in worse than expected, there is scope for downside.

Mark Gertler

A year and a half ago it was pretty obvious how to forecast the path of the funds rate. Now, I think what happens is really going to depend on the new data that comes in.

Elga Bartsch

As long as the data point to an ongoing economic recovery, they should feel comfortable about normalizing rates. If anything, the survey numbers are more robust than before.

Joel Kastner

Our data suggest that the planet-forming process may be hardier than previously believed, occurring around even the most massive stars.

Fernando Ferrer

Our data suggests that Latino turnout will be as strong as it was last time.

Robert Rosen

Our data is telling us that updated and improved standards of practice for storm water management would enhance water quality and do a better job of handling the volume of run-off.

Steven Hall

Our data doesn't indicate that you're not going to be able to see the Wind River mountains,

Lee Ferridge

People are still digesting Friday's data and wondering whether the short-term reaction to sell the dollar was right,

Steven Camarota

People come here to work, ... sliced the data really thin.

Robert Bohn

Sometimes, we get a slug of vehicles back in one month, which is more than we can do in one month. And then the next time, we're working short on Friday because the vehicles haven't come in.

Judd Boswell

Ronnie Patrick really stepped up Friday night. He is full speed no matter where you put him. He's really the kind of kid you want to coach.

Harry Stockman

It wouldn't surprise me if there were snow Friday morning.

Jen Haubrich

This game is huge. We're refusing to lose Friday night.

Warren County

That's what we're getting ready to do after this game Friday ... And we'll see what they say.

Nina Tassler

That (move) took 'Close to Home' from the verge of being canceled to being a successful show on Friday night.

Norbert Wiener

The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and a student of gravitational relativity theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday he is praying. . . that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.

Brett Favre

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

Argus Hamilton

Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never liked her. She hasn't been in office three days and already she's an abolitionist.

Joe Banner

Normally I'd say the player is not likely to just pass up getting paid. But in this case, you really can't say. This isn't a very predictable situation.

Susan Meyer

The more options we are able to offer people, the more likely they are to use one of them.

Tom Dorsa

The suspect was most likely in the passenger seat of the vehicle at the time.

John Pescatore

AES will likely not replace more than 30 percent of DES operations before 2004,

Laura Bush

The old Medicare was a system stuck in the past and we need to worry about the young workers that are putting money into the future, ... The more options available, the more likely you are going to get what you want.

Cliff Brewis

The way it will likely play out is, they'll start with (rebuilding) infrastructure, to non-residential and then residential.

Chuck Hagel

The road to Arab-Israeli peace will not likely go through Baghdad, as some may claim.

Frank Anderson

This is perfectly tied to loyalty. If you're a regular user, you're more likely to win.

Kyle Cooper

The weather remains the primary driver. Until the weather moderates, prices will likely remain robust.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Arianna Huffington

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Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Ben Harper

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Vijayraj Bhatt

Controversies can make news but can't produce results.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Dr. House

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

Tom Sullivan

I am not here for the short run. I am a follow-through guy,

John Tortorella

I don't want to be short ... but it's not a big concern.

Chris Taylor

I am making sure everyone sticks to a very short script.

Michael Biehn

And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!

Donald Sterling

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

Hillary Clinton

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

Joschka Fischer

I didn't even know the term 'Jamaica coalition' existed,

Susan Strasberg

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

Sepp Blatter

These are not 'minor concessions' as you term them.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Rick Moody

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,

Georgette Mosbacher

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.