Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Ballmer

We have never really used the stock market itself as a barometer of our success,

Barbra Streisand

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

Maria Rodriguez

A march is not a movement. It's a barometer for the passion. The community needs mobilization. We're in it for the long haul. If we really want successful integration, we have to do much more than march.

Anthony Chan

This clearly shows that relying on the household survey's employment measure as a barometer of labor market conditions is not only risky, but also an incorrect assumption,

Matt Bennett

They serve as a barometer to let us know what issues are out there.

Steve Lawrence

This meet has some of the top teams in the state and six teams we'll see come the sectional. This was a good barometer as to where we are at this time of the season.

Geno Auriemma

It's a great barometer for not only what is happening with our team at the moment but what could happen, what might happen down the road. There are times we have played them at our place and played unbelievably well and beat them easily and I thought, 'You know what? I think this team can win the national championship.' There's times when we've played them at their place and got our heads handed to us and I left there thinking, 'You know what? I'm not sure we're a national championship-type team.

Herman Edwards

It's a good barometer of where we are as a team.

John Mahr

It's a real good marriage between these two teams to be able to go head-to-head the first race of the year. It's a barometer for us to find out where we're at, and we're a little bit better than what we thought we would be. I'm ecstatic. To me it's a win.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

David Wald

We are pleased with the decisions. It clearly established the constitutionality of the Internet Registry Act.

Dave Roberts

There are clearly stated problems that we have to identify and have to uncover. The overlying theme is things that would lead to sudden incapacitation,

Rod Smyth

We're in a market that is clearly in a little short-term decision box. It's the debate whether core inflation remains low, which allows the Fed to stop raising rates, or whether core inflation is not able to be contained. We'll get a progression of data and numbers that will help resolve this somewhat, but until then, we're in the box.

Carol Marlow

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be changed, and we do regret that sincerely and clearly we do recognize there's been a lot of disruption.

Lucas Black

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Michel Onfray

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Stewart Newnham

The pound's strength is tightening monetary conditions in the U.K., but it's not enough.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to about what we saw in 2002.

Julie Gerberding

We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters,

Chris Stanton

We are looking into whether Martha Stewart violated the conditions of her release,

Kevin Stephens

There are some conditions we just can't handle here. Like dialysis. We can't do that, and they'll be here three or four days, so they'll need it before then.

James Allen

Where there are difficulties to cope with, and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue most flourishes and manifests its glory.

David Nelson

Where is the bottom? These market conditions will correct themselves, but probably over months, not weeks or years.

Julien Dray

When youths take to the street, you don't know what can happen. By digging in its heels, the government is creating the conditions for troubles (that can have) dramatic consequences.

David Hume

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

Jane Austen

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Masaaki Kanno

We are seeing a series of good indicators pointing to solid recovery: improving production, improving exports, improving employment and improving spending.

John Waller

When you take out the lands that are encumbered or don't have servicing, you come down to an 11.8-year supply of employment lands,

Bob Black

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Elisabeth Denison

A lot of it has to do with the labor market, the employment question is where it shows up. People are disenchanted with employment growth.

Art Hogan

A lot of that rally had to do with the ISM (Institute for Supply Management) number, particularly the employment component, with people hoping that in turn, Friday's monthly report will show a higher number of payrolls than what people are expecting.

David Hawkins

They're stuck in a limbo where they can't get formal employment and they can't go on to college. At best, they become part of the underground economy. At worst they become a liability.

Thomas Cummings

(During rainy weather) we tend to stay indoors and do household stuff and not socialize. When people get depressed, they tend to isolate themselves. It's a symptom but also a cause.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Rutina Wesley

Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Art Hogan

I think the theme is going to be that you have to pick the winners, and I think the winners are going to be the large-cap household names, like IBM, Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel. I think they'll lead us for a little while.

Thomas Sutton

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Charles Clarke

Now, at the end, my judgement turned out to be incorrect and we lost the vote.

Robert Novak

so patently incorrect and so abuses my integrity as a journalist.

Dan Mullen

If something comes out, you had better be ready, no matter how incorrect it might be.

Tony Dungy

I didn't really read anything into it other than he wanted more speed on his team. ... I didn't think it was a racist comment. It may have been politically incorrect to say it that way, ... but I didn't view it negatively at all myself.

Shaukat Sultan

Today it has been proved that all apprehensions (about the presence of NATO troops) were incorrect and false.

Dave Wannstedt

I really like it. I was a little skeptical the way we were doing it here and putting everything on the replay official in the box. But they've done a nice job if they thought that something might be incorrect of stopping it and taking a look.

Robert Stovall

When (Cohen) makes a statement it moves markets sometimes. People who have made statements in the past and have been incorrect don't have much impact.

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Roberto Heras

They told me the news at the end of October. The only thing I can think of is that it is a laboratory error,

Douglas Porter

This points out that the labor market remains as tight as ever.

Dana Johnson

They're a little disappointing if you're looking for a strong labor market, but nothing dramatic.

Alice Yip

There's a lot of prep work in the rice. Making the rice is actually the most labor-intensive part of making sushi, but it's a very important step.

Kevin Murphy

It was a short-term labor disruption. In the long run it's unlikely to be a big problem.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Andrew Zimbalist

Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

Peter Cardillo

We're seeing some profit taking but a strong build-up in inventories could send the price of oil under $60 and that could reverse market psychology.

Margaret Whitman

We'll see which one of those works for us and is cost-effective and that's how we'll refine our marketing mix going forward,

William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

David Gross

AARP does not think the solution is to regulate drug prices. We think there are market solutions.

Steve Cernak

A big part of our market is people who don't want to fly.

Patricia Chadwick

It's just another number that the market will go through.

Jim Hertel

It's as competitive a (grocery) market as you'll ever find in the U.S..

Andy Parsons

A lot is to be said about getting it to market sooner, but it's the question of what you are going to play on it that matters.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Dick Costolo

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

George Voinovich

They should be measured on it and if they don't meet the standard, they get docked for it.

James Morris

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

Kara Carney

It's not tangible. The passage of time is measured differently.

Joe Zimmerman

You can't measure performance or success just on rate increases.

Vince Cable

It's a tax-cutting measure and we should have made that clearer.

Michael Young

I just want to be a little more consistent. I've been relying a lot on instincts.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Irwin Shaw

The theater went from just weekend shows to Wednesday and Thursday also,

Judy Gold

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Carine Roitfeld

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.