Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

Flip Saunders

The starters have always been a fan vote and Vince has probably gotten more votes for the last seven years almost than anybody that's played the game. He had a lot of votes this year.

Ben Clark

The Stardust concept, from the time we started scribbling it on paper until today, has been almost perfect.

Jeremy Crabtree

The skill collection is going to be special. It's almost an embarrassment of riches.

Janice Dickinson

The secrets almost killed me. I kept the secret of incest.

Bruce Gellin

The secretary or the chief of staff -- we have a discussion about flu almost every day.

Dick Leggitt

These conversations he said he had with me are total fiction. Almost everything he said will be refuted.

Adam Jonas

The second quarter is going to be a very difficult quarter for most auto companies. Earnings will be down for almost every auto manufacturer with the exception of possibly Porsche , truck companies and select parts and tyre companies.

John Slenker

Another reason for fewer jobs is the increased productivity by companies. More production is gotten out of few people because of automation and improved manufacturing processes.

Greg McBride

Stringing a car loan out is not healthy. Four years on an auto loan is normal. Seven years is not. Your loan shouldn't last longer than the car.

Laura Wasser

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

Mary Roach

To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply.

Craig Thompson

We've had a lot of people comment that maybe our league deserves an automatic bid more than leagues that have automatic bids, without naming names.

Carol Johnson

You have to have a skill -- cosmetology, technology, or auto mechanics -- that will count toward a certification.

David Kelly

The reason spending dropped in January was a big fall in auto sales. I don't think this tells us much that's new -- it's consistent with an economy still growing in second or third gear.

Oh Suktae

We expect the recent impressive recovery in industrial output to basically continue, based on exports and auto production data. February data are still prone to distortions from the Lunar New Year holiday.

Dick Luedke

We're very pleased. Competition is good for consumers, and consumers now stand to benefit from greater competition in the auto parts market.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

S. Walker

Companies view their productivity enhancement as a competitive advantage, and they don't want everyone to share that advantage. To go into a public marketplace where everyone has the same technology, what's the competitive advantage?

Michael Porter

Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care system.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Tynan

This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005.

John Breaux

This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to.

Buzz Hargrove

This is not the richest settlement ... There will be moderate improvements in most areas. I think it is a responsible response by Ford Motor Co. in some of the most difficult times that we've faced as an industry, which means our union has to face it as well.

Tim Branham

That gave us a lot more opportunities around the basket. It was tough in the first half because he is a good player. As big as he is and as long-armed as he is, that made it real difficult to get inside.

Emma Watson

Alfonso put a lot of trust in us and it was so nice that he really wanted to hear what we had to say and what we thought, but Mike kind of took it to a new level, ... In a way, I think, I'd be doing something really difficult and I'd just say, 'I can't get this right. Just tell me what you want me to do. Just tell me how you want this to be, I'm going crazy.' And he'd just say, 'I can't tell you how to do it. I'm not going to tell you how to do it.'

Robbie Berg

The models that we look at, most of them are going in all different directions. So, it's making it difficult to forecast for us where Ophelia is going to go.

Lorenzo Romar

You're so anxious, because it's the NCAA. Sometimes the first tournament game is the most difficult game.

Edith Mayo

You're placing these women in a sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't position. It's very difficult to select something that's going to please.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Barry Hyman

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

Walter Winnitzki

These stocks are pretty much earnings driven. If the earnings come through, I think the stocks are going to move higher and, on balance, I think we are in a healthy environment, which bodes well for stocks in this whole group.

Donald Selkin

The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.

Rolf Elgeti

The valuations are still not a problem, earnings remain strong, M&A is still in the picture, interest rates in Europe are still not a threat, and this should help markets go higher.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

John Wooden

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

Joe Williams

Fuel is kicking us probably worse than any other department, with the exception of the Police Department. It's simply something we've got to have to keep moving.

Tasneem Aslam

If any exception is made to India, it should also be extended to Pakistan.

Abe Simoff

I have a lot of experience, and it's true someone 55 will be working, but they will not be working as hard as someone who is 40. I am 80, and I'm working hard, but I'm the exception to the case.

Tim Heekin

I think this is a continuation of what we've been seeing for the last six or seven weeks, with the exception of last week,

John Warner

I am pro-choice with limitations, pro-life with exceptions

Andy Scott

Our goal was to stop No. 22 and we did, with the exception of that one play. And it was that one play that lost the game for us. To be honest, Mary Persons is fortunate to leave here with a win tonight.

Hoshyar Zebari

successes we are making in some parts of the country.

Terry Crews

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No' to parts they should have said 'Yes' to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, 'Maybe you shouldn't do that.' I'll do it all.

Ken Thompson

We're an International truck dealer, sales, parts and service.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

O. J. Simpson

I think it will do very well ... As with most compromises, there are parts they like and parts they don't.

Jack Santino

In some parts of Europe, they'd look for bears.

Claudia Schiffer

I only want to do small parts for now.

Paul Erlich

The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts

Jane Riley

They have a showcase every year and you get to see snippets of the shows. We saw parts of all of the shows we booked, and they're great.

Reggie Sanders

What we're trying to do, ... is be as fine-tuned and honed-in on the small things as we can possibly be.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

Dan Hawkins

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Tom Crean

We got our second wind under us when we started to make those shots.

Richard Branson

When people screw up, give them a second chance.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

James Matthews

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Barry Levinson

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

Robert Rogers

I just went over to where all those trucks were parked to see if they were hiring, and they were,