Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

Charles Dickens

To a young heart everything is fun.

Charles Dickens

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Charles Dickens

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Loretta Lynn

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Bob Beamon

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Dave Wannstedt

This morning we had a meeting going over and correcting the stuff from the Tampa game, and now in two hours we're going to go into meetings on New Orleans. And we're going to practice for New Orleans this afternoon. We've never had to practice the day before a game, but we do this week, just to be halfway organized.

Sylvester Croom

It really increases our speed in the pass rush and still allows us to play the run halfway decent.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Clint Hurdle

The thing was, people we had talked to over the winter didn't want to come our way. We were able to get three of them halfway through the season. So it wasn't by design.

Robin Ross

Right now we're about halfway through our spring practices so this is kind of like a midterm exam.

Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes

Celso Senise

There is no money in the market and the pressure to sell is very great.

Andrew Zimbalist

Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

Mark Bryant

While Mark and I share the same loss, we do not share the same experiences,

Kenneth Fisher

China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.

Peter Cardillo

What we're seeing is typical of a market that is trying to make a bottom, but we're not necessarily there yet.

Peter Cardillo

We're seeing some profit taking but a strong build-up in inventories could send the price of oil under $60 and that could reverse market psychology.

Biz Stone

The future of marketing is philanthropy,

Chad Jones

We were in a tight market before all the hurricanes. And we won't be able to recover from the supplies that were turned off.

Margaret Whitman

We'll see which one of those works for us and is cost-effective and that's how we'll refine our marketing mix going forward,

Chad Pennington

Sitting let me learn what the NFL is all about.

Bill Walsh

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

Bill Walsh

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

Bill Walsh

Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor.

Buddy Ryan

Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.

Calvin Johnson

Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation.

Calvin Johnson

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

Calvin Johnson

I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball.

Bo Jackson

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Bob Swan

As we go into the second and third quarter ... those are traditionally slow quarters.

Richard Repetto

A strong quarter pretty much any way you slice it.

Ashley Tuiasosopo

It's the same thing every time we play. We like to think the third quarter is ours.

Bob Wilson

I told the team not to worry about Dewitt's shot. We were still up by two and we still had one more quarter to play.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Anthony Chan

It's a wake-up call. One quarter does not make a trend, but we have to be more on our guard.

Craig Barrett

As expected, second quarter revenue reflected a seasonal slowdown,

Derek Brown

The more I delve into the numbers, the better the quarter seemed,