Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Foreman

I was looking at my calendar when we coming back on the bus, and I didn't realize we were gone from home that much. I'll have to say it was 16 days well spent.

Lisa Gross

Kentucky has one of the shortest school calendars - not only in the region, but in the country. Most states have at least a 180-day school calendar.

Cesar Conda

Josh would have a calendar up in his office, where he would, in consultation with everybody else, map out when the president would be briefed on an issue, then tie it to events on the Hill and major announcements.

John Glenn

Good for her, ... I think too many people live by the calendar and become couch potatoes. I think people should do what they want to do and what they can do.

Stephen East

I think their operating margin could be down a half-percentage point through calendar 2007.

Larry Mondry

I think the calendar this year really helps.

Art Hogan

I think we're going through this natural vacuum in the news cycle where we have a quiet economic calendar and the fourth-quarter earnings reports are slowing down. It's difficult to generate any interest in the market.

David Vossbrink

I think we'd be able to start (construction) this calendar year.

Thomas Payne

I think that whole idea of the calendar starting in September is really eroding.

Barbara Boxer

I would tell her to do everything she could to spare other families this grief, to get us off this cycle of violence.

Mike McCrary

There are so many good restaurants now that it leaves an economic opportunity. When everything goes upscale, you also need a layer of family dining, lower-scale ... This is an upward cycle, where up until three years ago it was a downward cycle in a big way." ()

Richard Bernstein

History suggests that the most powerful factor influencing the profit cycle is pricing power.

Eric Chen

I think the cycle going forward is going to be more muted, or modest. I think 2005 was a good reflection of that.

Victor Lazarovici

We're in the midst of one of the greatest mining cycles we've seen in decades.

Dr. Schwemer

I think we're all sensitive to those changes. We're much more tightly tied to the cycles of the Earth and the universe than we like to admit.

Jim Paulsen

It gives you the sense that maybe this earnings cycle is going to be like the rest, where it starts out like it's going to be terrible and it ends up looking good, ... That's been the pattern for eight quarters.

John Challenger

We may well have reached the peak of the economic cycle earlier in the year.

Peter Watkins

I'd like to get that cycle time to less than six hours,

Darryl Jenkins

I wouldn't put my retirement money on the line for something like this, ... It is a very difficult environment for startups right now, with jet fuel so high. That scares investors away.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Dennis Hastert

Jack Ryan made the right decision, ... I know it must have been a difficult one.

Allan Kaplan

I would say that this a minor loss for the industry. I would say this is going to make it more difficult for them in their negotiations in terms of a settlement.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing. I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

William Keeler

I take this occasion to express publicly my apologies to all who have been victims and, in a very special way, to Mr. Stokes who is suffering, has suffered intensely because of the difficulty in which he now finds himself and which we find ourselves, ... I express my sympathy and to his family members, to all who suffered, because of what has been transpiring.

Jeremy Foley

I think it's a huge home-court advantage. I think the fact that everybody is on top of the court, the job the students have done making that a difficult place to play ... people say how loud it is in there. It's a different environment.

Mike Sanford

I think it helped us to learn more about him and what his strengths are. It was very difficult (with the injury).

Linda Duessel

I would say that for the next several weeks, earnings and the earnings outlook probably will be the most important things weighing on us.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Andrew Barrett

I think investors should be focused on several key areas, because at the end of the day you really want to be focused on earnings momentum,

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Sarat Sethi

I think it's going to be a quiet week heading into the long weekend. Through the summer, people are going to be focusing on the next earnings period, monetary policy, and if we are going to see more strong economic growth, as well as payrolls.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Robert Froehlich

I think the key is going to be earnings now. We're really getting into full swing with earnings, and I think earnings are going to surprise on the high side.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Adam Sharp

Key economic sectors took a big hit from the storm. Standing up the region's economy will help stand up the American economy.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Paul Sutton

I think it is one of the most fundamentally important issues with respect to social problems, economic problems and environmental problems. Everything gets harder as the population grows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Michael Driscoll

Greenspan saying he's optimistic about an economic recovery is as positive as it gets. He may as well jump up and down on Times Square ringing a bell.

Ben Bernanke

has set the standard for excellence in economic policy-making.

Najib Razak

There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Ellen Embrey

I think it'll help hopefully generate some response and interest. If that's what it takes, then, obviously it's a good thing.

Darrell Davis

I think it's just a way to generate revenue.

Greg Hirsch

I thought we did everything possible to generate offense.

Stephen Gallagher

Retailers have no pricing power themselves, as evidenced by all the discounts they had to offer to generate holiday sales. In terms of volume, they succeeded, but not at the level of profitability they would have liked.

Eric Albright

I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to handle that mentally. It's a challenge, but I think he's up to it.

Mike Tranghese

I never talked about numbers with our people, ... I just said obviously with the kind of quality that we have there's no reason to think that we can't generate more teams qualifying for the tournament. I think this is historical. This is a path that no one's ever traveled before, this many good teams in one league. What's it going to lead to?

Paul Swangard

You want to be using the off-season to generate momentum. And nothing has happened, from the stadium issue on down, to give much acceleration to that momentum. For every step forward, it seems like they've taken two steps backward.

Sen. Constantine

Once up and running, these two university medical schools will generate tax revenue of $81 million a year.

Dan Johnson

It's been our pitching staff keeping us in these games. We really haven't been able to generate much offense.

Michael Friedman

I was interested in seeing how the NHS would respond. I was thrilled when I was accepted.

Cheech Marin

I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

Grace Fey

I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of rising interest rates.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Steve Carell

Just the idea of him with a love interest is mind-boggling, ... I don't know how it could be handled.

Mark Latham

John is sure he's interested ? spoke to him about it during his trip to the West Indies last year,

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

Tammy Loew

I think it is perfectly natural for people to want to take a break.

Jeff Sessions

has the very natural qualities to make a superior judge.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Fred Thacher

He's done well for us, especially considering that not his natural position.

Paul Budde

I think the natural share price is between $3.70 and $3.80.

Miguel

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Richelle Mead

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

Reinhold Niebuhr

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Barry Hyman

I think it's emotional, because all the news out today is already known.

Jonathan Klein

We report the news. Fox talks about the news.

Michael Holland

I think what stocks are reflecting, especially with respect to the Nasdaq, is they've incorporated the worst news.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

R. Ingram

I watched the news and read the newspaper with my dad,

Michelle Williams

I went to sleep with the news every night,

Saifur Rahman

I don't know anything about it but I am worried like you going through the newspaper reports.

Mark Dubach

I don't know that it was easy, but it's just nice to have the newspaper here and get a win, because we were 0-2.

Rob Brown

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

Gary Thompson

He was a better shooter than anything. He was a quiet leader. He did it with his actions, and the respect he had for his teammates.

Michael Manning

He said he killed a woman. He told us to be quiet because we will get into trouble too,

Plaxico Burress

He's kind of got a little quiet 'Eli swagger' about him. You can actually sense that he's being more vocal and he understands that it's his team.

Allard Baird

It is all quiet there. There's nothing new, right now.

Richard L. Evans

Live so as to have a quiet conscience.

Walter Kirn

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

Rowan Atkinson

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Zig Ziglar

Take time to be quiet.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Susan Johnson

In Illinois, there are very scattered reports of true influenza.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.

Terry Wilson

The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it.

Wislawa Szymborska

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

Liz Carpenter

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

Heinz Pagels

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Bill Gates

There's a vacuum there that we are benefiting from immensely.

David Sedaris

If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.

Baruch Spinoza

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Dennis Ritchie

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

David J. C. MacKay

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.