Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Tien

What's offensive to me is that you have the government selling Registered Traveler on the basis that we will get you through security lines faster, when they created the inconvenience on dubious grounds in the first place.

William Prophet

With the FOMC meeting less than one week away, and 10-year rates soon to be within 25 basis points of the overnight rate, it is difficult to picture the market remaining at these levels.

Peter R. Grant

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

Robin Clements

With some speculation that the RBNZ could have moved by 50 basis points, the end result was a market reaction consistent with an element of relief.

William Saturno

With its fine painting and its elaborate mural showing the mythic basis of kingship, the chamber has upended much of what we thought we knew about the early Maya.

Max Nordau

We will briefly mention some peculiarities frequently manifested by a degenerate. He is tormented by doubts, seeks for the basis of all phenomena, especially those whose first causes are completely inaccessible to us, and is unhappy when his inquiries and ruminations lead, as is natural, to no result.

Reuben Mark

We are especially encouraged by the 110 basis point improvement in gross profit margin during the quarter, to an all-time record and the largest quarterly gross profit increase in over three years.

Steve Barrow

Fifty basis points is most likely; that's factored into the markets already.

Michael Iachini

Expense ratios are all mostly under 75 basis points.

Tony Russa

He's an excellent player. We've seen that. He's been exceptional defensively. He had a tough stretch before the break but he's been outstanding. The knee slowed him down some for a while, but he's healthy.

Phil Gee

That way we get two peaks: one for spring break and one for Easter. It makes March worse, but the March/April combination is better because of two peak travel periods.

Stephen Scanniello

I think for homeowners, it is easy to break tradition and use them as garden plants,

Chris Pedretti

We couldn't get that one hit all game. It seemed like we had runners in scoring position in every inning. We couldn't get that hit to break the game open.

Gary Geller

We were looking for her to break out, too.

Jason Varitek

He battled and kept us in that game. We just couldn't break it open.

Sean Sutton

He played like a big-time player. I thought he played with a lot of toughness and spirit and kind of carried them when we had a chance to break the game.

Jason Kidd

For the guys who were here before with the 14-game winning streak, we would love to try to tie that or break that. That is hopefully a goal we are setting.

Andy McDonald

I'd probably like to keep going (with games), but I'm going to use the break to my advantage. A few minor injuries will have the chance to heal up, it's a chance to get refreshed and rejuvenated and to do some off-ice conditioning.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

Steve Kaplan

Your business could be in a radically different place 18 months from now. But first you have to be ready for that to happen.

Ken Sternad

This is business that is permanently lost. This is business that has gone to competitors, that has gone elsewhere and through the signing of contracts and other deals that our customers and former customers have established with competitors.

Jacqueline Leo

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Steven Rogers

Environmentalists don't understand how to make an agricultural business run. It comes down to familiarity. We call it agriculture -- it is a culture.

Chris Rodgers

Each game is going to be a statement for us that we're ready, and whoever plays us is going to have their hands full. As long as we take care of business and do the things that we did in the Washington game, like fighting back and keeping our composure, down the stretch we should be OK.

Michael Metz

Even though the summer is traditionally slow, we are likely to see a pickup overseas this year. That's really where the incremental business will come from.

Andy Wirth

Even if we had gold medals from every U.S. skier, I think the snow would have eclipsed it. It's clearly been driving our business for the past two months.

Laura DiDio

Even if you've got a homogenous Linux or Unix server environment, at some point you are going to have a business partner, a customer or a supplier that is using Windows and is going to touch your network. And if you haven't secured those environments, then that could be a backdoor for a worm or a virus to infect your Windows network.

Garth Whyte

This isn't just a matter of changing the settings on a cash register - that can be done fairly quickly.

Tim Evans

They can continue to pump away and ring the cash register, ignoring the looming Q2 supply/demand surplus just like everyone else.

Dianne Wiest

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

Michael Hendricks

We're not trying to look into (Titan's) cash drawer. But they want us to say that all's well, and we can't say that until we've seen the full picture.

Red Herring

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

Jonathan Steinmetz

Today's moves set the stage for a more significant discussion with the UAW regarding cost savings, but have very minimal near-term cash flow impact.

Chad Logan

We had way too many opportunities that we didn't cash in on. We stranded runners and made too many mistakes.

Jim Awad

When companies like J&J conclude mega deals like this one it is a positive for equity markets, as it indicates there's confidence in the economy and there's excess corporate cash waiting to be invested.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife? Trust me, it's not.

Vicki Taylor

They're dropping out because they're retiring or because people are moving out of county because of the high cost of living.

Gary Ruskin

There's an opportunity cost of using these machines. I'd rather we use them to spot a tumor and save a life than earn an extra fraction of a percentage from stock trades.

Michael Roach

It's a combination of reacting to lower volume of work and providing the work at a lower cost location and therefore at a lower price.

Dusty Auxier

We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.

Tony Ridder

We promised a strong bottom-line performance this year, and we are going to deliver, ... We have offset some tightening in the revenue environment with tough cost discipline, and that will not be a one-time event.

Chuck Berry

This will cost people their jobs and likely their health insurance.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!