Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darrel Good

Prices now appear to be settling into a trading range that may persist into the first of the calendar year.

Robertson Davies

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded

Pascal Rannou

On Titan, the clouds appear in the summer time. This is opposite from Earth?when we have summer in the southern hemisphere, clouds are transferred to the north. We should spend all our days in winter on Titan, compared to Earth.

Sherry Nelson

Often the straw that broke the camel's back may be pretty little. Somebody may get upset about something that doesn't appear to be related to what's going on at the farm.

Richard Goldstone

Companies are getting letters informing them of what allegations are likely to be made and what evidence is going to appear in the October report. They are being given an opportunity to respond to it.

Matthias Machowinski

Despite the lower value ratings Cisco received in our survey this year, the truth is that organizations are reluctant to change vendors, and if they do, there has to be a very compelling case for doing so, ... Unlike in the router market, there doesn't appear to be a shake-up going on in the switch market. Vendors that make an organization's short list are likely already installed in that network.

Steven Wood

Despite the brief moderation in consumer attitudes, consumers appear to be spending heavily still, urged on by widespread hiring and income growth.

Bill Evans

Despite low unemployment, wage growth remains contained. With job gains slowing, the risks from wage inflation appear to be receding. Interest rates will remain on hold in 2006.

Rob Palombi

Despite the weakness of the past two months, the general underlying trend for the economy is still higher. The data still point to strength in the manufacturing sector, and upcoming orders appear strong.

Rob Reiner

As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

Bradley Belt

Our social fabric is increasingly frayed. Companies have been either freezing or terminating their defined-benefit plans over the past couple of decades. It's critically important that we take a look at this issue from a holistic standpoint and make sure that we're setting aside enough resources to meet our future obligations.

Todd Marks

People can take this time to put money aside for retirement or to start a savings plan. But these are not sexy choices like buying that wide-screen TV.

David Paulison

Again, these are safety issues that are costing firefighters' lives. And Congress rightfully so set aside these grants for these particular things.

Gail Lowe

The State Board of Education sets aside monies to pay for textbooks. The catch, however, is that the Constitution gives the Legislature appropriations authority. Though we set it aside for textbooks, the Legislature has to appropriate it.

Peter Osnos

The temptation to put standards aside in pursuit of sales volume is enormous.

Martin Henderson

I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.

Herbie Hancock

After a long day of playing, John took me aside and said, 'Was that OK? Was it usable? What's going on?' ... All I said was, 'Welcome to a Miles Davis session.'

James Browning

After a few years we found that these items didn't work. It took a lot of time to deal with them, plus they took up a lot of space. So we put the other stuff aside and migrated back to the book business, something we really felt very comfortable with.

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Ross Pillari

We regret that our mistakes have caused so much suffering.

Jamie Shea

We regret any loss of life that this may have caused because our policy remains to minimize collateral damage.

Richard Boucher

discussed the strains that are caused by the (incidents) that occur with regard to ... the presence of troops in any location, including Japan.

Ben Hatfield

We don't what went wrong and caused this explosion.

Damion McIntosh

There was a lot of chaos here last year. It wasn't too uniform. Things changed from week to week, which caused confusion. Now the system is always consistent.

Donald Rumsfeld

When there is damage done, it is not always exactly clear what caused the damage.

Hasidic Proverb

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men

Jane Brown

Lots of us expected the ice would go out today. While it hasn't been very warm, all the movement caused by the wind and the water rushing in from brooks, continued to melt and shift the ice until it finally moved enough for the clock to stop.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Bob Gainey

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

Michael Goodman

People dedicated to committing piracy are going to find ways to do it.

David Davidson

Offering more humanely produced eggs naturally fits our commitment to foster goodness and decency in our students.

Mark Williams

Despite the fact with the issues we have with supplies, etc, we're standing by our commitment.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

James Sarni

It wouldn't surprise me if we get to 4 3/4 percent, but it would surprise me to see the funds rate go higher than that.

David Rose

You're going to see a lot more mutual funds owning international securities.

Darius McDermott

We rate all Japanese funds as a nine or 10 out of 10 on the risk scale, but for those investors looking for a less volatile option than the Legg Mason fund, JP Morgan is our fund manager of choice.

Edward Meir

Commodities seem to be a rather popular alternative (to bonds, equities and the dollar) for funds searching for a trend.

Bill Rocco

Those kinds of funds only work well for people who don't own a U.S. fund and who are keeping their portfolio simple.

Scott Kahan

So look at the funds you own or ones you're considering buying. All that information can only make you a smarter investor.

Jeremy East

Money goes to performance, so as the funds performed well, more investors put money into those funds.

Wes Anderson

Now we will have the funds to install it.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

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.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Alfred Kugel

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Shane Doan

To get momentum like that is huge. We've got to find a way to keep it going. We've let it slip away too many times.

Brian Brohm

We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw (that) once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to, ... We've got to get into that rhythm every game.

Marlon Brando

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Kasey Kahne

We had momentum. We've had momentum all weekend long.

Dick Powell

When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out.

Hannah Arendt

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Joe Balogh

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.