Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Henley

As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft and does not appear to be improving.

Michael Gregory

As far as the Fed goes, it really isn't inflation on the ground that's a concern, it's inflation down the road. For a very long time, they've offset that with global concerns, but there doesn't appear to be any more world crises to worry about.

Jim Nelson

As far as I could tell, the governor appeared to be trying to get support for the bill on the (Senate) floor.

Randall Luthi

As far as I can estimate from the preliminary projections ... it does appear that we may have unexpected revenues of approximately a billion dollars,

Mark Ternent

As a result of Pennsylvania's large human and bear populations, bears and people are coming into contact frequently. These encounters occur because housing developments and businesses continue to encroach into bear habitat and more bears are living closer to people than ever before. Chance encounters in the field also appear to be more common than before in some areas.

James Mays

As currently envisaged by some proponents, the program would appear to serve more as a revenue-generating scheme than a security program that would benefit passengers.

Anthony Chan

The bottom line is that consumers experienced a soft patch in the first quarter and they appear to be emerging from it,

Chris Morrison

The bottom line is I would expect some form of debt exclusion question to appear on next April's ballot, either to cover the design costs or the whole thing, ... We cannot obtain state approval and the funding that comes with it without a commitment from the voters.

Sean Maloney

The business market remains slow for PCs, but it doesn't appear that we have lost significant market share, ... Average selling prices are about where we thought they would be.

Elizabeth Graham

Consent in many ways is the same as notification.

Gerrit Smith

There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.

Richard Riordan

They're not going to get a consent decree. I'm saying that unequivocally,

Vicki Saporta

We're seeing more and more informed consent laws passed that are politically motivated, with items in there trying to dissuade women from having abortions, rather than being politically neutral and giving women true risks and benefits.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Smith

This is really the last resort because of the expense and difficulty.

Eric Close

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Al Jarreau

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

Steve Ball

We had some difficulty matching up with them in transition in the second half, but our offense was balanced, and we've shown we can play with anyone.

David Payne

There is no intention to increase the difficulty level.

Marc Touati

The recovery remains very fragile. Consumption slowed, investments are still subdued, and exports are having difficulty picking up.

Lee H. Hamilton

The status quo failed us. Reform is an urgent matter, and reform must not wait until the next attack.

Kurt Cobain

Things have never been so swell, i have never failed to fail

Walt Baker

The worst thing we can do is to start firing people because they failed to show up to work.

Timothy Roemer

We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably,

Dave Rice

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Fisher DeBerry

We had it in our grasp and we let it slip away.

John M. Smith

I don't think he's even grasped his potential yet.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I feel it now...there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it.

Chris Burke

I'm just starting to grasp it, because these are the types of homers you always see replayed. And now one of them is mine.

M. Scott Peck

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Mary Landrieu

The president is starting to grasp the magnitude of the situation.

Elizabeth Meriwether

I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.

Eddie Jordan

Probably Sunday, probably. We're going to give it another 48 hours and then we'll see.

Hugh Jackman

Probably look at it for an hour then paint it or throw it in the pool.

Collen Msibi

People should rest for at least 20 minutes every two hours or every 200km.

Michael Egan

Oftentimes my work will be purchased hours after it is made. I just can?t keep up with it -- I might actually make it here.

Michael Egan

Oftentimes my work will be purchased hours after it is made,

Adrian Leppard

During the last 24 hours we executed a number of search warrants. I can't tell you at this stage the result of those searches.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

John Brockington

An hour out of L.A., he tells us we're getting taped on the plane.

Shawn Johnson

I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

Madeline Albright

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

Doris Lessing

Intelligence forbids tears.

William Shakespeare

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Peter Sorensen

After 16 years, we're there. We've isolated it, and we can synthesize it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Dave Wannstedt

I could've named several others who were deserving.

Frances Townsend

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Phil Keoghan

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

Santana Moss

I could have at least got that quote on a T-shirt.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

John Atkinson

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Mia Wasikowska

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

Rick Clausen

The most important thing is understanding your role,

Terry Turner

There's always been the understanding that a (tax break) could come into play.

Rita Ora

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.