Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Max Mayfield

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.

John Pickard

I averaged about 10-15 hours of work a week, ... But it was more motivation for me to get in there and improve my work.

Tony Haynes

We've averaged 20-plus wins a year for the last five years, five straight NCAA tournaments. Kids graduate. Hey, that's a successful program.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

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.

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.

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.

Soichiro Monji

Tech companies are still facing a tough time with drops in product prices.

Kevin Ryan

Technology spending by most companies is still weak, and the technology companies out there are feeling that,

Francis Gannon

Technology is part of the increasing productivity trend, and people want to own shares in the companies that mark this trend.

Lisa Cullen

Technology has looked like it's quite immune to the machinations of the Fed but I think people have gotten complacent. The Internet companies are very dependent on a constant flow of venture capital.

Mia Turner

At the moment, the emphasis is on the need for road engineers. If we can open the roads, that would solve everything.

John Cairns

People in my view have been putting too much emphasis on the slowdown of the economy,

Carolyn Peck

I think this was a very clarifying time for us as we've gone through right now. Now our focus and emphasis has to be maintaining that focus of what we want our M.O. to be.

Linette Johnson

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

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.

George Carlin

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

Stephen Barnes

You would have stayed out of them the last five years,

Jamie Dixon

You see teams go on runs and win 20 games one or two years in a row. You really separate yourself if you do it three, four and now five years. It puts you on a whole other level. It's something a lot of people didn't think could be done here.

Jamie Dixon

You see teams go one or two years and get into a run of winning 20 games. You start to separate yourself with three, four or five years winning those many games. It's a sign of where you're at. Now you want to go to another level.

Jim Sullivan

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Ashton Whidden

We gave it to them. It's a little hard to swallow, but you have to look to the future and hope to get better at what you do.

e. e. cummings

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Alexander Pope

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Desmond Tutu

The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions

Clarence Darrow

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Ambrose Bierce

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Andre Breton

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Jack London

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

Richard Jerram

I think the real question is whether growth in 2001 is positive or negative. And the way things are going, it's looking increasingly likely there's going to be a negative number.

Richard Rosen

Just don't switch from value stocks to growth stocks.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Mark Clifford

We scored some points; our offense competed better (than last week).

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Joyce Walker

Get low and shuffle. You've got to harass her.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

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.

Kim Carnes

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

Lev Grossman

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

Michael Wright

We want to keep prices as low as possible.

Marilyn Manson

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Sebastian Bellomo

You don't have to worry about safety. It's very safe.

Robert Frost

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Thomas Guthrie

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Matthew Simpson

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Martin Van Buren

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

Abdus Salam

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

Mallory Ortberg

I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

Felicia Stockford

I don't think it's safe any- more having them do that.

Jerry Smith

Don't learn safety by accident.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.