Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing - Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Dale Thomas

After listening to comments from members, we reviewed the current policy and trends related to the $500 deposit CCEC now requires for new work orders and we adjusted our policy accordingly. We felt this was an area where we needed to make an adjustment and we did.

Vance Belew

Teams have been using this style the past few weeks on us. We have worked on it but didn't react well on this one, but we adjusted all right after the first one.

Jhumpa Lahiri

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

Mark Courtney

We had the right people in the right spots to stop Earle's single wing formation, ... However, what we saw on film was totally different than what we saw on the field. The Bulldogs had much better speed than we anticipated. They were very quick. Earle gave us a lot of trouble in the first half with their cutback runs, but I thought we adjusted well at the half and did a much better job in the second half.

Stephen Dupont

If they applied for, and obtained another job with our Waterloo facility, their service would be adjusted for the time that they have already been with us and their time away. If one of these former employees did want to move to Troy, I'm sure the general manager of that facility would consider the employee for an available position, however, we're not planning to offer relocation at this time.

Michael Gavin

Going forward, we expect the economy to show positive year-on-year and seasonally adjusted rates in the quarters ahead, but the 1.8 percent Central Bank estimate appears to have more downside than upside risk at the moment.

Randy Mayes

I think the opposing coaches had a lot of respect for him. Biggest thing he had to get used to was playing every down and pass blocking. And he adjusted to both of those well.

Connie Clark

I thought we grew a lot mentally. We were challenged to make sure we adjusted mentally.

Gary Barnett

I thought our defense was on the ball. We had a good plan and sort of knew what they were going to do. I thought we tackled well. They had one new formation for us, and only a couple of new plays. The kids adjusted to (those) pretty well.

Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Jim Donahue

Credit card companies, credit unions, many retailers, as well as the American people, have lobbied for bankruptcy reform for years.

Jerry Weller

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

Ann Gurkin

My initial reaction is no, it will not bankrupt the companies. Florida passed a law that if companies have to post a bond to pay huge punitive damages, it's capped. But that law has not been tested.

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Bill Dreher

I really would be surprised if they filed. The part of the equation that is missing in a typical bankruptcy situation is that vendors are not clamping down on them. Vendors are not limiting the distribution of merchandise.

Tom Price

I've gotten a better response since the bankruptcy filings.

Connie Slayback

We know that we will have to make sacrifices but we're hoping the bankruptcy judge will perceive what a disproportionate sacrifice Delta is trying to wring from this group of working women -- most of them mothers who help support families.

Bud Shuster

We are not talking about a choice between this merger and the status quo, ... US Airways has been hemorrhaging money. If nothing happens, it is my judgment we'll see US Airways in bankruptcy or out of business in coming years.

Hisao Sato

Oil demand in the U.S., China and India is expected to rise further. Supplies, especially of sweet crude oil, will increase only slightly compared with the growth in demand.

Liu Mingkang

the story I delivered to the public in China and outside of China is a story of 'never again.'

Joyce Ma

When I met her in Hong Kong I was very touched by how she welcomed the eastern culture to be her own. And she was there, not now when China is open, but when it was during the cultural revolution,

Chiang Kai-shek

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.

Jiang Xiaoyu

We want to convey the image of a China that is more open and that is making progress.

Pauline Frommer

You hear more and more about people going to China and not just to Beijing, but also to Shanghai. It's a place Americans should see. They're shaping up to be our big competitors.

Wendell Perkins

We had a great deal of exposure to China last year but we've been reducing it mainly due to value not being there at the moment.

Zhu Bangzao

Every year there are more than 10,000 criminals who win medical parole in accordance with Chinese regulations. Therefore, there is no question whatsoever that there was a deal between China and the United States.

Brendan Harris

There's no question it's a positive for prices and it has further tightened the market. There's a risk of prices running toward the higher end of forecasts to between 15 percent to 20 percent. We've seen spot prices in China rising.

Mahmudur Rahman

The crisis of diesel should not be seen as scanty stock.

Mark Mobius

We were investing at this terrible time when emerging markets were all going down, some by 90-odd percent, and we are now benefiting from that, ... You had one crisis after another. You had Russia, Brazil, Thailand. We were investing in all of them.

Douglas Alexander

One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.

Jefri Sirait

Maybe they're waiting for the situation to stabilize. But, whatever the reasons, the electricity crisis puts us at risk.

Doug Henderson

NATO will today be stepping up still further its response to this crisis,

David Healy

If it wasn't GM in crisis mode and the whole feeding frenzy going on in the media, a small restatement like this wouldn't get any attention.

John Palmer

If they did it, it would represent a very serious crisis,

Andre Caminada

If they keep managing the energy crisis well, there should be no major impact.

Richard Gere

If this crisis hits them to the degree it's expected to, we've lost Asia.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Tony Fadell

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

Shannon Schonrock

We're playing horrible right now. We're not playing tough at either end of the floor.

Rod Thorn

We've started looking at other options because players that we may have an interest in are either signing every day or they are about to sign.

John Carver

We could've won it after either slam, simply by saying (Teague) couldn't continue. But that's not the way we want to do things.

Heather Bowie

Either way, it will be a relief when it's over and we know.

Libby Turner

Either purposely or inadvertently, they were abusing the system.

Danny Jones

We all go after the rebound. It's either just the right position you are in or the way it comes off the rim. Sometimes you're just not in the right position to get the rebound.

Peter McWilliams

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have enough fortitude and they probably wouldn't succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Douglas Kirkland

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

Billy Joel

You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.

Juvenal

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Will Rogers

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.

Richard Yamarone

Inflation pressures are rising, but at a subdued pace.

Glenn Hubbard

Inflation pressures are quite modest in the United States. I don't think inflation will be a problem this year, or next year, even with the rate cuts.

Robert Parry

It's risky just to sit back and wait for an upward trend in inflation to show up before we do something,

Anirvan Banerji

There will be a time when inflation will turn around.

Bruce Steinberg

We don't have any inflation problem. The CPI was a one-time aberration.

Gregory Miller

The deflator is rarely revised, so this one revised this much is probably significant. We are seeing more and more inflation pressure percolating to the surface.

Gordon Brown

We have met our inflation target this year every year since 1997.

Lorry Lokey

You can't do much better. He lets you run your own shop.

Craig Schmugar

It does not do a whole lot right now, but we will see a different type of virus down the road because of this. This is forward-looking, but it lets people know there will be attacks.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Daniel Yergin

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Michael Hudson

High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.

Mercer Reynolds

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

Michael Mandelbaum

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

Andrew Harrington

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

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Christine Lagarde

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.