Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table.

Brian Wansink

People generally estimate tall glasses as holding more liquid than wide ones of the same volume. They also focus their pouring attention on the height of the liquid they are pouring and insufficiently compensate for its width.

Jim Taylor

Offering our more dramatically styled, greatly refined and higher performance all-new Escalade at a starting price equal to the current generation Escalade should certainly attract luxury consumers' attention and help Cadillac continue to dominate the large luxury utility segment. The new 2007 Escalade boldly begins the next phase of Cadillac's renaissance.

Jim Tracy

No question, he's making a strong case for himself and everybody is paying very close attention to it. We see what's going on.

Shelley Berkley

Again, this is taking attention away from the fact that the NCAA has responsibility for these kids,

Bob Sitko

Oil below $60 a barrel grabbed folks' attention. When the market decides to pay attention to things is a bit of Rubik's cube, but this is a big deal.

Bob Sitko

Oil below $ 60 a barrel grabbed folks' attention. When the market decides to pay attention to things is a bit of Rubik's Cube, but this is a big deal.

Erik Cole

Actually, I'm not sure we're paying attention to that. I'm just paying attention to doing whatever it takes to help this team.

Alecko Eskandarian

Actually, I felt bad for him too, because he's been linked as a co-conspirator. I think it's all pretty funny, I can't believe how much attention it's gotten. I never thought it would blow up the way it did.

Ross Walker

To some extent jobs created in the public sector will compensate for job cuts in the private sector.

Jason Silva

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.

Bruce Tonjes

Our estimate would be around 75 percent overall.

Colonel Farnacio

Our estimate is about 2500 people were buried.

Will Whitehorn

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

Gary Samore

No one can estimate with any precision how long this will take,

Dan Evon

I estimate we've spent $14,000 in materials on the house.

Tim Deal

I estimate that Apple's server revenue is less than 1 percent of the company's total revenue.

Chuck D.

I would estimate about 95 to 100 miles per hour. I was able to match his speed for a short period of time to get video.

David Greene

My job is to put out the most conservative estimate and we're hoping to raise somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 between the 16 authors.

Patricia Olson

O ctober 25th, estimated before we'll have power or water or anything,

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Michael Dixon

Most all of them are pretty much word-for-word the same. Most every impact statement is negative. Generally that's what they are because people talk about how much the resources pull away.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Guy Clark

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

Aimee Mullins

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

Janet Frame

[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

Damon Lindelof

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Boris Yeltsin

The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.

Anthony de Mello

My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Simon Pegg

Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

Swami Vivekananda

Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

Anthony Anderson

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

Sylvester Stallone

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

Fernando Pessoa

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

Lon Carter

It always comes down to times, heights and distances.

Wiz Khalifa

When you livin' this high you can't be afraid of heights.

Susan Cutter

We're not out of the woods yet. We're not even in the height of hurricane season.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Kris Grawitch

We're holding a pre-construction open house so people can see what we don't have.

Russ Tanner

Big Dan's kind of holding it over our heads.

Rick Soracco

Those two are going to score. It's just a matter of holding the other ones down a bit.

Estella Olguin

We think his name is David, but we don't know. He doesn't talk. He is very clingy. He will not let go of whoever is holding him.

Jim Haslett

What am I going to do about a holding call?

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously, Alcoa really disappointed the market today. But we've also had a big run-up since the start of the year, and considering that, I think stocks are holding up pretty well.

Robert Kenny

He was a strong person. He looked after his kids. We're holding on OK.

Carolyn Porco

Once you have liquid water, you have the potential for living organisms.

Samuel Wilson

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Katy Perry

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems,

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.