Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Davis

This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Kenneth Sheinberg

There's really no conviction. The market is churning. That's all it's doing is churning.

Ron Suskind

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Michael Ratner

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

T. S. Eliot

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Barry Hyman

Most of the growth stories are not performing today and that is how we'll go into the Fed meeting. There's still very little conviction in the market.

Joe Biden

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Daunte Culpepper

That's hypocritical. We had those girls shipped in via Fed Ex. Next time, we're using UPS.

Jim Johnson

Alberta is going to secede from the union, I think. We're just getting fed up.

Ethan Harris

You probably want to subtract about two-tenths of a percent from first-quarter GDP growth. But that's looking like very old history, with the Fed having eased twice since the first quarter. From the market's perspective, you feel like you're in a different world already. The first quarter looks very distant, indeed.

Peter Boockvar

This is before the hurricane and does not influence what the Fed is going to do, and CPI is more relevant to the markets.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

Masayuki Senda

There is a possibility the Fed may raise rates three more times to 4.5 percent before pausing, to keep inflation under control.

Al Goldman

We do not think the Fed will raise rates at their meeting at the end of this month.

Ken Young

Right now we're in Phase One. Phase Two will give us more room to accommodate a growth in students.

John Sicher

Quaker Oats' grain-based snacks could show real growth within the Frito-Lay marketing and distribution system,

Dave Pieknik

I've seen an exponential growth since the two years I've been coaching.

Charles DiSanza

(These businesses) are a unified part of their ongoing high growth business, and...should stay as part of that business.

Kenny Guinn

is important to all of us in terms of water, and open land and growth.

Jared Bernstein

I've been pretty happy to see the pace of job growth in professional services.

William Baldwin

It wouldn't surprise me if Pier 1's ongoing situation leads to some management shuffle unless things improve, ... Pier 1 has called itself a growth company, not a value company. For that it needs to grow its top line and profits.

Kevin Rottinghaus

The wireless handset market is getting better so there is opportunity for Intel to see some growth,

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Liz Phair

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

Monica Keena

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Michael Davis

TI is performing well but it is being unfairly tainted,

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.