Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Whetsell

As Blackstone started to look at some of our assets they made an offer for the whole company which we felt was very attractive.

Scott Benesch

The cable assets are growing the fastest. There's not a whole lot of growth in the rest of the business, which is why the stock is not going anywhere.

Jimmy Tallent

During the fourth quarter, we resolved several non-performing assets, which slightly increased net charge-offs while lowering non-performing assets. Asset quality continues to compare favorably with peer banks and remains well within our tolerance levels. Strong credit quality, rooted with our guiding principle of securing loans with hard assets, is essential to our balanced growth strategy and overall success.

Janet Dickey

Defense is, for some reason, always an asset here.

David Bernstein

Companies can bring their own assets in the form of Java code and Web services and stitch those into this product.

Naomi Hasegawa

Deposits stopped growing and household money is heading increasingly to risk assets and will continue to do so as long as Japanese interest rates are zero.

Raghuram Rajan

A number of developments concern us. These include the excessive dependence of global demand on consumption, especially in the US, the elevated level of asset prices, particularly housing and the high and volatile price of oil. The downside risks to our forecast have thus increased.

James Duffy

An off-duty officer should be able to carry weapons anywhere. We're an asset to public safety.

Warren Bailey

Anything the central bank buys constitutes an asset and allows it to expand its liability of money supply.

O. J. Simpson

As a result, this potential source of funding will be delayed well beyond the six month period.

Ben Halliburton

Profitability in the first-quarter and beyond is going to continue to be strong and the broader economy is clearly in a recovery phase,

Larry Gregory

Progress on the Gulf Coast has been very positive. We've gotten our first month of our gross revenues (and) the numbers coming in are beyond anyone's wildest expectations.

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Joseph Crowley

Our differences are great and our challenges are great because both our countries are great. We both have a great responsibility to solve problems well beyond our borders.

John Shelby Spong

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

John Mason

Our decision was that it was beyond the scope of something that was reasonable.

Tom Buiocchi

Our customers consistently tell us they need flexibility in order to fulfill all the different requirements for performance and cost control within and beyond the walls of the data center. Our commitment is to provide our partners and customers with the right mix of technologies to connect, consolidate, and ultimately better control enterprise data storage and server assets.

O. Henry

People sometimes disagree. I don't think you can have healthy relationships without disagreements and an organization is not going to evolve beyond mediocrity without them. This is not the same organization that Theo left. There was enough discord then to give Theo legitimate reasons to move on.

Jean Charest

Rather, what has been a threat to national unity is those who think that in Canada it should be one size fits all.

Alex Rodriguez

Really? Even before we play on Friday? Shoot. We're cheering for Canada, right?

John Johnston

Defensive and interest-rate sensitive sectors did well because Canadian rates were very low - up until recently we saw the 10-year Canada yield get down to 3.73 per cent - very constructive to utilities and the dividend payers and the defensives.

David Murdoch

Defeating such a big curling nation as Canada, it's colossal. As far as Scottish curling goes, it's huge. There's a lot of pride at stake, making sure we do ourselves justice.

Ralph Goodale

Anything we do over the next several months will be juxtaposed over the timing of the campaign. Whether there is an election or not, Canadians would want to know what, if anything, the government of Canada can do to be of assistance.

Donald Coxe

The story for Canada just gets better. Canadian energy and mining stocks will continue to be driven by strong global demand for commodities.

Daniel Brodsky

The system is broke. Cases like this make the Correctional Service of Canada look really terrible.

Robert Morrow

Thank you for choosing Canada. We're very, very proud of each and every one of our new citizens of Canada.

Richard Masur

So much of what defines culture is Language. Take Canada for example, francophones and anglophones are defined by their language.

Avram Chomsky

ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

Joe Suboticki

Defense is what carries us. It got us the momentum and it got us some easy baskets. That's how we got that run.

Lao Tzu

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem

Adam Everett

That type of energy carries us, ... This is the time of year when you have to let it all hang out and he definitely does. We wouldn't be where we (are) without him.

Jack White

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

Napoleon Hill

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Ray Rhodes

You look at his leadership and the way he carries himself on and off the field. This kid stepped in right away, and all the players migrated to him. He had a command in the huddle, and the leadership just oozes out of him.

Justin McCareins

You look at him and the way he carries himself, and oftentimes you don't think of him as injured. Even though he's not playing, he's always in every meeting.

Mark Martin

There's no one in this sport right now, there's no driver in the sport that carries the size of stick that Dale Earnhardt carried. There just won't be another one. I don't think there ever will be.

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.

Ben McGrath

People doubted us all year. Now they're getting on the bandwagon.

Javier Solana

The situation is not easy ... but I don't doubt that we will find a solution,

Scott Reid

The system is flawed, no doubt about it,

Trevor Hohns

The omissions are performance-based ? there's no doubt about that,

Michael Charlton

After 20 years of evaluations, none of which put his IQ over 70 and some that put his IQ in the 50s there is no doubt he is mentally retarded.

Jack Ablin

After looking at the employment numbers, there is no doubt in my mind that the measured language remains. Knowing what we know now, there's no pause in 2005.

Jason Giambi

Actually, Joe was the one who congratulated me, ... And I said: 'For what? I know ain't gotten a hit in a while.' But it's exciting, no doubt about it.

Dave Odom

Sparks shot that one from the museum some place. Even if we were man-to-man, I doubt we would have guarded him that far out.

Ben Wallace

Sometimes, when you have a new coach, a new system, a new group of guys, it takes time to jell together, ... But there's no doubt in my mind that we're eventually going to come together as a team and make that title run.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

This country, of course, needs fundamental reform of our financial regulatory system, as I, and many other financial institution executives, have publicly advocated for a considerable period.

Matt Lewis

You're safer online than offline. And the safest place for you to be online is through your financial institution.

Dave Ramsey

You must tell your spouse everything about your debt, income, financial strengths and weaknesses. No secrets allowed.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Miroljub Labus

There are no financial means in the country.

Randy Jones

We don't actually know of a victim with financial loss right now. We're anticipating there are some.

Brad Rubin

Even if there were a strike, it would be for a short time and would only have a minimal financial impact on GM.

Alan Greenspan

Because it is a highly leveraged operation and one which requires very sophisticated hedging of interest rate risk, it's imparting a significant potential systemic risk to the American financial system,

Jim Hopson

As this platform is being phased out worldwide, it simply doesn't make financial sense to make those kinds of investments.

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Kathy Miller

Originally we were going to find a home for him, but people would look at him and go, 'Ooh.' He looked so terrible.

Jim McGowan

Of course, we're retired, so we're usually home -- if we're not volunteering.

Horace Horace

Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying

Andrew Baird

Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malley.

Dan Parker

No sir, we don't have a home left.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

John McPherson

Do you want your home to be a museum, or do you want to live in it? ... We're not trying to do a museum.

Sam Harris

Como's probably never going to stay the same. This is home though. And I can never say that I'm going to a better place. We'll survive.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Bill Graham

Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bereket Selassie

Housing is a huge retention issue for the military.

Gregory Gieber

Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.

Dionne Warwick

Drugs of every sort, including aspirin, are not anything I even think about.

LeBron James

Brenda was a special person to everyone, including myself. I will truly miss her being around. My prayers go out to her family, especially my little brother, Brandon.

Alex Clare

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Michael Schumacher

Everyone is replaceable, including me.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

Rui Farias

Our success has always been on defense, including the forwards.

Sundar Pichai

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

Joe Biden

There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.

Steve Cauthen

The inherent risks of being a jockey are there whether you're 16 or whether you're 60.

Eugene Fama

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Stavros Dimas

The time for Romania to start planning and implementing this investment program is now.

John W. Snow

Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Sarah Dessen

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

Rocky Steagall

It's more of a lifestyle than anything. It's a way of sport in our lifestyle ù a ranch, a rope, cattle. This is our sport.

John Deacon

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

Ellen Page

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

Steve Case

When I saw it, I really thought it could be more of a lifestyle brand, much like Nike.

Yingxi Yu

Technical trends are looking very strong and people find it very risky to go short right now. I think that's why the rally has been continuing.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Chuck Koons

We're looking for what we could do that was ecologically sound.

Eva Simons

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

Jeff Bryant

We really don't know our starters yet, or where everyone will play. We're looking for the right combinations.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Robin Wagner

At that particular time, I was looking for something in her that maybe she wasn't ready to give me.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Demis Nikolaidis

The work we have done the past two years is now visible and we will play to win.

Jay Shows

This is something we've been working toward since the past year. It's not really much of a change.

Stuart Sternberg

This is the day we pointed to. It's optimistic. It's enthusiastic. It's exciting. Really, on a scale of 1-10 of expectations, it's past a 10. It's just great, just wonderful.

Robert Esche

That's in the past. I don't really want to talk about that.

Jaret Wright

You're going to think about it. Once you're out there, you've got to play the game. Everything is in the past after that.

Brett Favre

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

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.

Aditya Mittal

As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Kristine Fauerbach

The sticker price is not going to shock you.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Paul Walker

As things stand at the moment, I would have said a realistic rally in the price is up to $500.

Janet Ray

The record price we see today, I believe, is not the end.

Matthew Alexy

Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Maggie Mermin

The risk is not zero. But it's low.

William Schmitt

This is probably one (company) where that risk is the greatest.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Lou Jiwei

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Dana Delany

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Edward Norton

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Edward Snowden

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Hans Trousil

The rollback has been steadily decreasing since the 1990s.

Jasmine Guinness

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

Lizette Hernandez

I've worked since I was 14 and now it's more important than ever for the kids.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Chris Burns

I've wanted to play for this team since I was a little kid. I feel like a rookie.

Aaron Marks

I've wanted to do this since I was like 5. Broadcasting is something that you've got to have in you.

Tyra Banks

I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.

Sean Biggerstaff

I've read the 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' at least once a year since I was twelve years old.

Taylor Momsen

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

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.