Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide, ... Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

Majel Barrett

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

Travis Leffew

I sent a few text messages, but I couldn't call a lot of people because I was still getting calls from people asking me about signing as a free agent. When it gets in the paper, that's when everybody will know.

Elena Cuevas

This is the first time that it is nationwide and you can see it. People are asking for some respect.

Brodie Croyle

That offensive line y'all have been asking questions about, they showed up. They'd been criticized all camp, saying they're kind of our weak link.

Michael Morris

You should wake up everyday, as a person traveling in the region, asking what can I do to reduce my fuel consumption and what can I do to reduce my emissions in the region.

Jack Black

You're asking me to choose between two children, the one that pays more and the one that I secretly love more. With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out; with the music, there's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

Phil Garner

You're asking him to do a lot but if it's a possibility here and he could bring a lot of offense to the table then we're going to consider him. If he can get back to the big leagues I think he'll take it any way he can.

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.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

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.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

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.

Joseph Beaulieu

Companies that do really well either minimize something like prices, or maximize something like luxury. It's the companies in the middle that are going to be squeezed.

John Caldwell

Companies that are reporting good results are being rewarded, but it's not really having too much of a carryover effect into other stocks,

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

Walter Winnitzki

These stocks are pretty much earnings driven. If the earnings come through, I think the stocks are going to move higher and, on balance, I think we are in a healthy environment, which bodes well for stocks in this whole group.

Donald Selkin

The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.

Andrew Walker

This earnings increase is the highest we have seen since 1999. It has been growing much faster than inflation.

Juergen Lukasser

What we need right now is earnings growth, and some sort of weakness in the retail sector is a threat to that.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

Jon Huntsman

so we can operate government more efficiently from an energy-consumption standpoint.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

Robert DiClemente

The risk of spillover from the rising trend in energy prices will likely prompt the Fed to head off more lasting damage.

Barry Long

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

Brooke Burke

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Deepak Chopra

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

Robert Burke

Entirely too much energy of our state police force is spent controlling honest citizens, simply because it is something they can succeed in doing.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

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.

Alfredo Alonso

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

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.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Ruth Porat

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Douglas Coupland

There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anish Kapoor

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Alfred Korzybski

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Albert Einstein

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Allen West

I'll give you a great example of an issue that no one brought up during this Florida primary, the fact that we're going to have a Chinese made oil rig put in place about 60 miles off the coast of Florida.

Daniel Yergin

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

Sylvia Earle

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

Ray Davies

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

Rick Santelli

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

Rick Perry

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Tony Blair

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit

Rudolf Diesel

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.

Andrew Harrington

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

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.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Steve Mitchell

We're a service industry, what a town does is it proves services. We need to be able to look and see how we are raising revenues to provide these services.

English 16th Century Proverbs

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

Tom DeLay

Mr. Earle and his staff know it. And I will prove it.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Jim Mattox

He's been there 30 years, he doesn't have to prove anything to anybody,

Zachary Quinto

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

Hisayasu Nagata

In the end, I could not prove the authenticity of the information.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.