Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Brennan Bilberry

People understand the disgusting length this organization will sink to, to attack a woman who has dedicated her entire life to children. It will absolutely backfire.

John Schuerholz

Our doctors say that injury heals itself. I hate to lose him for one day (but) it just takes time. It should take no more than that time and maybe not even quite as much time as the 15 days will provide. To be absolutely certain that he is healthy when he returns, we're putting him on the list.

Steve MacFarlane

Northwest is doing absolutely nothing to indicate they want an agreement.

Brian Blume

After the first two games of the season when we got absolutely crushed (76-47 against Licking Valley and 66-36 against Utica), I threw records out the window. I wasn't going to look at wins and losses. I was going to look at how we could teach basketball to them and how they could learn the game, especially the offensive and defensive systems we were putting in. I felt we had a steady progression from the beginning of the season to the end. I felt at the end of the season that they had a good knowledge of the game. I felt we had a successful season because they learned how to play.

Scott Bailey

After realizing that some of our biggest spikes in site traffic were immediately following the race, we, along with Jack Daniels, launched the call-in show and are absolutely pleased with last season's success.

Rusty Petrea

Once we achieve the practice facility, this place will be absolutely world class.

Craig Wright

Once the schedule's been absolutely rubber-stamped, we'll seek the advice of the Scottish Executive and the Foreign Office,

Monica Baldwin

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

Liz Darger

Our effort was good, we wanted to come out and be aggressive in the beginning of the game and I fell like we did that.

John Schweitz

(North Georgia) was stronger, more aggressive and physical than us. The team that's stronger gets to the line more often.

Mitch Gross

The more aggressive he is, the more he's going to win, and this is the most aggressive I've seen him. That's the biggest thing; he's a confident tennis player right now.

Bernadette Murphy

The momentum has been reversed from the upside to the downside, and so they are capitalized on that by shorting stocks that had been popular -- the aggressive growth stocks

Keith Sinclair

Defensively, the Lions are aggressive to the ball and posses a lot of speed. There 13 point average on defense has been a product of good all-around pass and run defense.

Jason Portz

Defensively he's been fantastic at third and he's been very aggressive at the plate. He's had some key hits in some key situations for us the last two weeks.

Brent Bracelin

Dell's commentary implied that Dell was probably overly aggressive on price, and that's probably more of a company-specific issue than an industry specific issue. But people will look to see if aggressive pricing impacted (HP) as well.

Andy Neff

Dell is taking a more aggressive look at its expense structure, and I'm hearing that they are doing their employee reviews earlier than expected and that they are being tougher than they've been in the past on weeding out those who are underperforming.

Paul Klee

Dell cited IBM as the competitor that has been the most aggressive right now.

Bill Murray

As far as the consumer is concerned, they think it's a stand-by ticket where you have to sit in the back by the toilet,

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Mark Batty

People are worried about possible net interest margin compression and credit quality deterioration, as well as slowing consumer loan growth.

Dannielle Romano

People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that way, and having the convenience of consuming it that way. It's a quickly growing, voracious audience.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the combination of somewhat slower growth of productivity in recent quarters, higher energy prices, and a decline in the exchange rate for the dollar, core measures of consumer prices have registered only modest increases,

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Mel Karmazin

Satellite radio is very hot and is continuing to be one of the fastest-growing products in consumer electronics history.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

Mark Milner

The risks are going up nationally, but they're mitigated by a strong labor market and strong economy.

Bill Dudley

This is a pretty good report, I thought, in terms of the economy getting better.

Mark Vitner

This is another affirmation that we've gotten over the shock of the hurricanes and the economy is back on track to where it was before.

Scott Irwin

This is not just about Home Depot. This area's economy could use a shot in the arm.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

Mark Milner

The risks are going up nationally, but they're mitigated by a strong labor market and strong economy.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Xinyi Lu

This is a very good sign for the economy. It's helpful for the yen.

Rick Brown

It's great for the economy. I think there will be other tax receipts from goods sold during the holiday to people who are out and about shopping.

David Hale

They've got a runaway economy, and they're trying to slow it down.

Janet Miller

It's an indicator of a very regional economy.

Kevin Schneider

It's going to be a tremendous value to the tourism economy.

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.

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.

Brian Reynolds

Everyone was reaching for yield. When the Fed first tightened, people were surprised as heck.

John Derrick

At the end of the day, if Greenspan wants to solve the conundrum of low long-term yields, then raising the fed funds rate is not the answer,

J. D. Salinger

Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

Stephen Stanley

This speaks to very robust underlying momentum in the economy, which is one of the reasons why the Fed will have to keep going.

Robert Mellman

This (New York) survey suggests that the manufacturing slowdown is more gradual than had been expected. The more reliable Philadelphia Fed survey out Thursday will provide a better read.

Yingxi Yu

Technical trends are looking very strong and people find it very risky to go short right now. I think that's why the rally has been continuing.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Chuck Koons

We're looking for what we could do that was ecologically sound.

Eva Simons

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

Jeff Bryant

We really don't know our starters yet, or where everyone will play. We're looking for the right combinations.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Robin Wagner

At that particular time, I was looking for something in her that maybe she wasn't ready to give me.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Alfred Kugel

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not leaping into this, we're moving into it in a measured way,

Gene Kitts

That's why this is such a slow process.

Bob Johnson

(Brady) really wanted to play a slow tempo. But we got some steals and were able to up the tempo (after the first quarter).

David Snowdon

We can't do anything today to slow down the development of Alzheimer's lesions, ... we can do something about strokes.

Jeff Johnson

I have to tell her to slow down sometimes.

Jason Guffey

I?m disappointed because I wanted to win the match, but it?s just going to make me work harder. I can?t let this slow me down at all.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Michael Apted

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

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.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.