Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

John Schuerholz

Our doctors say that injury heals itself. I hate to lose him for one day (but) it just takes time. It should take no more than that time and maybe not even quite as much time as the 15 days will provide. To be absolutely certain that he is healthy when he returns, we're putting him on the list.

Aretha Franklin

A fellow Detroiter, Wilson Pickett was one of the greatest soul singers of all time. He will absolutely be missed. I am thankful that I got the chance to speak to him not too long ago.

Tedy Bruschi

After I was able to complete workouts and run the conditioning workouts over and over again, I knew this was going to happen, ... I'm not going to jump into something without being absolutely 100 percent positive. And I am.

Bronson Arroyo

The most promising thing (about the trade) is I won?t have to worry about going to the bullpen . . . unless I?m absolutely horrible.

Richard Clarke

Now he never said, 'Make it up,' ... But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq did this.

George Nichols

Now is absolutely the worst time for an optical IPO to come to market.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Billie Burke

No woman has less temptation to seek matrimony from sordid motives of selfishness or convenience. The actress is an absolutely independent wage-earner, and better compensated than the great majority of women who make their own livelihoods. She need not marry for money, or social position, for these are her natural possessions.

Mark Richt

He's banged up and he's sore, ... We've got to see how he progresses. But if he's in a weakened position, you could make it a lot worse so we're being cautious with it right now.

Wade Flaherty

It's big for everybody in the room. With this team, you've got to be cautious of rebounds because they get a lot of offence from crashing the net.

Marcus Gronholm

It was a good fight until yesterday night, Loeb was very good here. We have won this rally many times and I'm happy for that. Today we had to be cautious not to hit any stones or holes which could do damage to the car, it was not fun to drive the last stages.

Corey Ostman

The market is so cautious right now and so shaky that if you don't have all those perfect scenarios, then you will trade at your IPO price.

Alan Greenspan

It's the type of step you would want to take when you've had a decade-long fixed structure, ... I think they've been cautious and admirably so.

Jason Kantor

We remain cautious until we see significant evidence of accelerating sales, operational and commercial execution, and improved long-term visibility on sales and earnings growth.

Kurt Barnard

Wal-Mart's news is a very big deal. There's no doubt that a significant number of consumers are shopping paycheck to paycheck. Most are also waiting for price reductions. So saying that the consumer is still cautious is a good indicator that the holiday season will only be moderately better than last year.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We have been very cautious with our players. That is our policy. We try to look to the future.

Kurt Barnard

When the full story is reached at the end of the quarter, retail profits will be less impressive, especially in apparel. There was nothing in the display windows (of clothiers) to incite cautious customers to buy.

Gary Ruskin

So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.

Kent Willis

School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students. Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational process, but schools ought to be encouraging students to express themselves.

Lara Rhame

This is not a 'ripping off the Band-Aid' kind of situation, where you know how much the pain will be and that you'll be fine afterwards. We don't know how well the economy has healed. The Fed remains very concerned ... that they might overshoot and give the economy such a shock they'll have to cut rates again.

Robert E. Lee

At present, I am not concerned with results. God's will ought to be our aim, and I am quite contented that His designs should be accomplished and not mine.

Stockwell Day

We are very concerned obviously with developments in Haiti.

Dave Bonnot

We were concerned that he seemed to be listening more to them (developers) then his constituents and us. He did say Mountain Springs was a great place to put a subdivision.

Richard Pound

We were concerned something might be going on in Italy.

Tom Padjen

We were concerned especially with homecoming week and everything. Defensively, we played a great game.

Michael Roth

We're looking at several things. We're concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

David Porter

We decided that for this holiday season we should be involved in some type of offering. We know our customers match up with his fans.

Dave Andrews

We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Bob Mitchell

Customers are shopping the market. They expect a deal when they come in.

Jeff Smith

Even though there were 5,500 customers who were out, they were not all from Gilroy.

Jennifer McNamara

We're taking a look at many different policies. This is good for customers.

Kyril Faenov

We expect our customers to start pre-production deployment evaluations of the product with this beta.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Nancy Healey

The seniors know that this is their last year and last chance. They want to go as deep into the tournament as we can.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Mike Skelton

It was the opening three minutes that put us in too deep a hole.

Jacques Chirac

I share the pain of those families who have lost a loved one, and I offer my deepest condolences and sympathy,

Randy Jackson

They all hate each other deep down, but they aren't going to say it on camera.

Laura Lopez

This is the deepest snow we've had in a long time. I never thought we'd get this much.

Mark Kinsella

Albion will be mentally strong because of what happened last year. They had some big games at the back of last season and they dug in deep - they'll do it again. They have the players that have done it before and players whose second nature is to fight and battle.

Rhonda Faehn

A little shaky. It was really, really rough. We started out with such a deep hole. We had mistakes that were uncharacteristic.

Colin Clarke

Before we installed Enterprise Vault in 2002, housekeeping in Exchange 5.5 was a nightmare. Recovering old e-mail was impossible.

Jim Balderston

To date, much of the penetration of Linux in the marketplace has been in the back room infrastructure space, tying things together at the lower levels of the stack. Such accomplishments are not to be scoffed at, but represent the first step in establishing Linux as an enterprise and market wide technology.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

Richard Pierce

This is a huge thrust for us in conjunction with Yahoo!'s enterprise thrust, and we're really happy about that relationship.

Jamie Kiggen

Over the last nine to 12 months, they've been growing into an enterprise software company. Today, we're seeing some growing pains. They are going to grow their top line but there is low visibility as to how rapidly they are going to grow it.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Rick Carlisle

It was a terrible performance. It's as simple as that.

Daron Rahlves

It's bad, it stinks, a poor performance by the team. It's really a poor showing. Big stage, little performance. I don't know why.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Suzanne Vega

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

Tom Robbins

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

Nina Simmons

There is not really a way to stop them - if they really, really want to rush the court.

Steve Wilson

A thank-you to all of you who rushed to Kersey and valiantly searched for Sam,

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Stuart Appleby

It will be one of our top 10 doing something,

Alex Kelly

It was hellish conditions, if you will, on top of the chimney.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

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.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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