Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Fleischli

No one wants to pay higher fuel costs and Americans don't want to be told what to do.

Irene Towell

Once we get into kitten season, our costs start to skyrocket again.

Craig Johnson

The more costs Wal-Mart can take out of the system, the more it's able to pass a portion of the cost saved on to the customer in the form of lower prices.

Chu Sik

December's usual inventory write-offs and increased marketing costs led the operating profit margin to fall to 8 pct from 11 pct a quarter earlier.

Jim Higgins

Compensation costs are going up. United has seen to that,

Don Carter

Despite these recent price drops, natural gas prices are higher now than in the past because demand for this most efficient and cleanest-burning fossil fuel has increased while production has not. The natural gas market is extremely volatile, and Elizabethtown Gas will make every effort to hold costs to the lowest reasonable level.

Peter Drucker

A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

Yusuf Mehdi

These new enterprise-class enhancements to the desktop search capabilities we introduced last spring will empower IT professionals to deliver higher productivity, lower IT management costs and greater ease of use throughout their organizations,

R. Halloran

The soft underbelly is the costs. The costs are going up quickly for them. It's troubling.

Drew Neitzel

Offensively, we never really got anything going. Everything we got, we had to earn. We didn't get any easy baskets.

Dee Lee

Often times we want the easy way out.

Harvey Mackay

Often, firing is a straightforward cost-cutting measure. When you're fired, it's easy to weave fantasies and imagine villains. If you are going to spend an hour feeling miserable, make sure that you are miserable for the right reason.

John Brady

Northeast didn't make it easy for us. We struggled in the first half, started to put together some solid play in the third quarter then opened it up in the fourth.

Charlie Korsmo

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Taurean Green

Defensively, we had to rebound, stop penetration and prevent them from getting easy looks at the basket.

Kevin Williams

Defensively I was worried because I thought we were giving up some easy shots, but I looked up and we've only given up seven points. A lot of times we got greedy defensively and were out of position.

Joe Galli

Della & James offers a powerful, new use of the Internet that makes it fun and easy to find the right wedding gifts for family and friends.

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

John Campbell

People come as visitors and it's our job to send them away as pilgrims.

Michael Boyd

Northwest can survive if they have to go into bankruptcy, ... These labor unions have to take it upside the head. Their next job will be at the Wal-Mart.

Nate Whitford

Once the job is done, then it will be time to look back and reminisce. But right now, there is still a job to do.

Scott Ellis

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

Martin Freeman

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

William Kristol

The more one learns about him, ... one is surprised that he's in that job in the first place.

Dan Castellaneta

Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast?

Rob Gray

Defensively we played better in the second half. We did a nice job of taking away what they had in the first half.

Clay Jordan

DeAndre did a nice job tonight. I knew we might lay it down some, so we had to make up for it with big plays. And we have the players to make those.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

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.

Tai Hui

Quality property at the top-end of the market is still pretty scarce,

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?

O. J. Simpson

The stock market is very jittery because of the hurricane. Any positive news in regards to the storm will push the market up.

Michael Polk

Is it a big market today? Maybe not. Could it be? Perhaps over time.

Tomi Taterka

Things are still very complicated and the market remains nervous and should stay that way for some time.

Desmond Soon

The worry is the shortage of dollars. The market is watching their reserves position.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Ryan Anderson

The switchover means you need a digital-ready TV, not a high-definition TV.

Ross Mathews

I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too... I have an idea or two.

Mahmoud Othman

Someone should have said something. The other side is talking, and the American side is silent. To be silent here means you are on the weak side.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Dick Murgatroyd

I simply can't tell you how much this means to me.

Mike Mahoney

That's going to be up to him because it's a new position. By no means is he being banished from anywhere.

Stephane Dujarric

Zero tolerance means zero tolerance. We have a responsibility to act.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Augusten Burroughs

But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

Augusten Burroughs

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Robinson Cano

It was tough to see. I didn't see it.

Willie Randolph

They are all tough, man, ... and this is tough as it gets.

Jimmy Johnson

The wind was really swirling. It was tough at times.

Li Na

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

John Skalko

These are tough times and we're in a fight. It's a tough fight.

Ron Thomas

This is not done without any real thought. There are tough standards.