Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Aaron Gray

Guys are putting too much stress on the offensive end and not enough stress on the defensive end. I think that showed in the last game. We also have to cut down on turnovers. The biggest part of the meeting was cutting down on the little things. People don't understand that one possession, one breakdown can lead to you winning or losing the game. We've confronted those issues and hopefully we'll learn from them.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

Richard Smith

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

Scott Hoyt

Going forward, sales growth will be more modest and inconsistent. Fundamentals are mixed. The biggest drag is high and rising gasoline and other energy prices.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot. I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot, ... I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

Tim Burns

Under Michigan law, unless something was intentionally misrepresented or defective, there's no mandatory right for a consumer to make a return. But if a store posts a return policy, they must follow the terms of the policy.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Had the outcome been better, it would have increased speculation of higher consumer prices immediately ahead, so it seems that investors are taking a weaker reading as a positive.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

Hugh Walsh

I think (today's dollar drop) might have something to do with things heating up in Syria; the U.S. withdrawing their ambassador.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Kamal Sharma

Investors are reluctant to take the dollar significantly higher and we are having thin markets. The market still prefers to sell the dollar on rallies.

Tom Fitzpatrick

In the near term there could be some dollar strength.

Michael Woolfolk

Interest rate differentials are supporting the U.S. dollar for the time being. Until the Fed pauses, it looks that's going to provide support for dollar bulls.

Ron Franklin

In the history of TSU, historically these expenditures have been allowed. Secondly, every dollar that was spent was the kind of expense that is an appropriate use of state funds.

Jay Monahan

If there were any dollar figures mentioned they didn't come from 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.

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.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Laura Conigliaro

HP's fundamental earnings power highlights that this is more than just a restructuring story.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Kenichi Azuma

Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Howard Silverblatt

All the big effects of the hurricane didn't happen.

Jim Egan

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Adolph Gottlieb

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06, primarily because that's when the major effects will hit, we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06 - primarily because that's when the major effects will hit - we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

Robert Miller

This will soon become an unmanageable situation with all its negative effects on patients and health-care providers.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Sharon Dillon

I didn't want them to play (with fear).

Ken Hitchcock

I don't know whether it's the fear of getting embarrassed or whatever but we've got a lot of competitive guys and we really love to play in these type of games.

John Page

I am in fear that these assaults have risen to the level where one of us is going to be seriously injured or even killed. Please do something before it's too late.

Spanish Proverb

He who is feared gets more than his own.

Mike Quigley

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

Raimund Fabi

He will not ski because he is ill and has pneumonia. He's back in Austria and had his last test today.

Robin Cook

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

Werner Herzog

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Joe Pasquale

If you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Roz Savage

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Libba Bray

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

Tim O'Brien

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

Lydia M. Child

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

Gloria Moore

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

James Buchan

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

George Bernard Shaw

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

Samuel Johnson

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

B. F. Skinner

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Tennessee Williams

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Shusaku Endo

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Taylor Swift

being open isn't the same as being weak.

Rachel Field

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

George MacDonald

All haste implies weakness.

John F. Kennedy

So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.