Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Joyce Chapman

I think it is important for youth to grow up giving back to humankind, and West Bank enjoys getting behind the school and supporting them.

Peter Foley

He did everything right. Rado would get a gap on Seth by running low in a turn, but Seth knew better than to drop low with him. He stayed high, where he could ride the bank fastest, and just waited until he could pass him.

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

John B. Robinson

Gold is used to a certain extent; but the great bulk of the money in use is not gold but promissory notes, called bank notes - paper money, in short.

Joel Denney

It certainly is signaling there is financial stress on Northwest. It's telling everyone they may now be looking at bankruptcy as a strong option.

Li Ruoyu

It indicates the central bank still wants to keep its control of money and has no intention to get expansive. It is still emphasizing prudence.

Charles White

I think that's a great deal. This is a stock that was a stellar performer last year, has lagged a little bit this year. But, selling off that division just increased their focus on the more growth oriented businesses, and I think Bank of New York, even after the 2 or 3 point move yesterday, still is an extraordinary value at these prices.

Severin Borenstein

I think that's a big issue that a bankruptcy court is going to have to confront. What's the ongoing responsibility of the company and what's the legal liability in the contracts.

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Michael Ganal

In 2005 we were the world's most successful supplier of premium automobiles and in the first two months of 2006 we have further increased our lead over our competitors. This is a good basis from which to defend our leadership position this year.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

John Greene

If you look at public opinion surveys, there's a basis in the evangelical community for these kinds of initiatives on the environment. But they're not there yet.

Michelle Clayman

There are still concerns that profits will slow considerably, and that will hit stocks. But I think there are a number of stocks that are just oversold at these levels.

Alan Smith

I think the pursuit of this was overly aggressive, and this reeks of a personal vendetta to me on the part of the homeowners' association. It goes back to concerns Karen had with respect to school zoning issues.

Addison Armstrong

I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to continue to outweigh the fundamentals.

Adam Ereli

Our objective, ... is to help relieve the suffering of the North Korean people, despite our concerns about the North Korean government's policies.

Hideyuki Suzuki

Investors sometimes go after these leading firms when there are concerns about higher interest rates. In a sense, these are stocks with staying power.... On top of that, their earnings have been good.

Chirlane McCray

I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.

Louis Hobaica

It helps them if they have health needs or concerns disabilities, if they are home bound.

Nancy Achin

Clearly, this pattern is such an extreme deviation from his peers that it raised grave concerns for the board.

Paul Simpson

If the pitch is like it was the last time we played there, I will voice my concerns and I will be stronger in my opinions.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Roland Hwang

The hybrid Mariner is the right idea at the right time. To regain its competitive edge, Detroit must come to grips with how high pump prices have put consumers in an entirely new mindset. This vehicle proves that a determined Detroit can win this race.

Geoff Lewis

A higher oil price is like a tax on consumers. It pushes up price levels and consumers are going to spend less on everything else.

Eron Shosteck

The manufacturers have polled consumers on this issue and we get conflicting answers.

John Rutherford

The key message for consumers is that they should continue eating fish,

Beth Zimmerman

The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential functionality that consumers find in the larger products and to introduce new and relevant functionality.

Rebecca Stanfield

These are common-sense initiatives that will make Illinois a healthier place to live, and will save consumers money at the gas pump.

Terry Trippler

The frequent-flier programs' glory days are over. It is time to 'spend down' on all the airlines. Wise consumers are already doing that.

Tom Baker

has been driven by increased demand for our growing lineup of new game themes, strong gaming operations performance and solid market share growth by our major international subsidiaries.

Carl Herrman

What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again.

Bjorn Hanson

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent years. This year it will only grow about two and a half percent.

Joe Mauer

Having the first year of going through that and getting to know these guys, that's a lot of information, ... It's not only a physical demand on you, but mentally as well.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

Andrew Grove

I don't expect the end demand to snap back, ... We are in this state for some period of time.

Richard Aboulafia

I don't know which is more bloated, the production expectations or the demand expectations.

John Hamm

We can do what we can do to make sure people aren't being gouged; that the price is fair and is being determined by demand and not gouging,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Elizabeth Dole

The next president, whoever she may be, must stabilize the farm economy by exercising leadership to expand domestic markets and increase exports,

Qu Hongbin

The key to bolstering domestic consumption is to shore up citizens' personal incomes.

Robert Subbaraman

The Korean economy could be starting to fire. Now the domestic and foreign sides are going quite strongly.

Julie Johnston

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

Matthew Aid

All the NSA people I've talked to think domestic surveillance is anathema.

Geoff Sundstrom

They promised to raise production and they've lived up to that, ... This is a domestic issue. It has become necessary for the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to grant waivers to prevent shortages.

Bill Cheney

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP (gross domestic product) growth have increased substantially.

Jim Volk

People are still very very nervous and looking over their shoulder on the domestic recovery. I think the market could come back again, though -- stocks have had a lot of resilience the last few days.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Tina Olson

There aren't a lot of obvious places to just go and increase rates.

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Ty Cobb

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

Osama Hamdy

Our research shows that people may have a better outcome losing weight if they increase their intake of lean protein.

James McHenry

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

Madelyn Flannagan

If you don't think that's enough, you can increase it.

Jonathan Murray

If you opt into the plan, the first year, you're going to see an increase of 19.4 percent of the $100 -- so that's $119.40. So, you can see the first part of the program, you're much better opting in.

Colin Egglesfield

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Andy Cheng

The object has not been co-operative at all. It is an incredibly nasty place to land,

John O'Connor

It's been incredibly busy. We have been trying staff-up, but there's no stop to it.

Jay Groves

It's an incredibly important position to everyone on campus.

Curt Smith

sad, selfish, self-defeating and, in the long run, incredibly stupid.

Timm Sharp

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Adeo Ressi

A high openness score means you're open-minded - you see the world for what it is - whereas a low openness score means you're incredibly closed-minded, and you see the world the way you want to see it, regardless of what is actually going on.

Steve Earle

Even though I talk about them every day, I was still incredibly nervous and shaken. It was a stressful situation.

Brendan Sexton III

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

Paul Watson

I know when I am being harassed. It seems to me that Japan is pulling some strings around here.

Emily Greene Balch

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

Eric Darwell

This says that things in Japan are on pretty solid ground.

Bunroku Yoshino

There was a possibility that the negotiations would come to a deadlock if Japan did not pay.

Jon Jovi

It's been 22 years of making records and I must have been to Japan 25 times or more. There's not too many things in the world I haven't seen.

P. J. O'Rourke

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

Matt Groening

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!

Paul Samuelson

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Pat Buchanan

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Tramain Hall

All of a sudden they took the points off the board, ... It was like, 'Are you serious?'

Adam Morris

I've got to put on some more points and more yardage,

Ike Taylor

They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.

Bryan Robson

It's not over though, there are still a lot of points to play for.

W. S. Gilbert

It's a tight race in the WCHA and we know these points are so important.

Jason Allison

It's a tight division, there's not a lot of points separating a lot of teams. We're going to have to go out there and come up with some wins.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Larry Harris

If you can raise up and shoot from 15 to 18 feet, you can play in this league,

David Scott

It's really a pretty simple model. Raise the pay.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

S. Walker

This is the only way I think we can get this done without having to raise taxes.

Linda Jacobs

This is the only time of the day I raise my voice.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Deepak Chopra

Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

Chuck Palahniuk

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'