Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Larson

I hear different things from different schools. It is kind of a mixture, but it is all anecdotal stuff they are supposed to have some experience with it, so it is not a complete surprise.

Holger Schmieding

The evidence on U.K. consumption remains contradictory. Some data such as weak consumer confidence and the reluctance to use credit cards point to further weakness ahead. However, the modest rebound in the real estate market and anecdotal evidence of satisfactory Christmas indicate a modest strengthening in spending.

Arnie Berman

The key question is whether or not business that's not getting closed is representing postponed business or forgone business, ... The anecdotal evidence is indicating that business is probably postponed.

Lori Lucas

The average person is not making any choices on a proactive basis, on an annual basis. We have more anecdotal evidence that the individuals are not really sure what the choices are.

Terri Miller

It's pretty eye-opening that that many filed, ... But I wouldn't be surprised if we match that number between Oct. 1 and the 16th based on anecdotal information I've gotten from a lot of attorneys.

Bruce Vladeck

A lot of us suspected that was going on, have heard anecdotal stories about it, had the impression that it was harder and harder for poor kids to get Medicaid enrollment, but this is the most dramatic documentation we've had so far.

James Stover

It's the census bureau, so we figured they would respond to statistical information. We've gotten a lot of anecdotal information from the public, and we're trying to document that as much as possible.

Stan Shipley

There's evidence that inflation isn't a problem and some anecdotal evidence that the economy is slowing, but I think we'll have to wait and see the employment report. Greenspan is going to wait to see those numbers before he makes any determination of what he'll do in November.

Michael Metz

There's anecdotal evidence that individual investors are looking more towards the equity market than real estate. It's a good sign initially that there's new demand, but it could suggest we're at the final stages of the advance.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Sally Ride

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Walter Pater

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

Cayden Boyd

I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law & Order' set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, 'OK, time to watch 'SpongeBob!''

Paul Dravis

These two individuals have been running the show for quite a while, and they work together well. They've done it for years, and I don't think, from an execution perspective, it's a dramatic shift.

Kevin Norrish

It's because we've had such an explosive rise in heating oil prices -- I don't think we've ever seen such a dramatic increase in the spread between heating oil and crude.

Sheldon Steinbach

It's still a premier national research university with dramatic recognition on the international scene.

Mike Clarke

It's an extremely dramatic reduction, but it's of something that in the first place wasn't very common. So, these stockings reduce a fairly small risk, to something tiny.

Paul Molitor

It just seems like Ortiz has so many dramatic hits.

Morgan Pressel

Harder than it had to be ... that's for sure. I was struggling to make solid contact.

Chauncey Billups

He's a volume shooter and he's pretty much the No. 1 and No. 2 options for them. He's going to shoot a lot of shots, and he's going to make some tough ones and score some points. We'll be right there doing whatever we can to make it harder on him.

Sam Worthington

To film in water is three times harder than just on land.

Shari Schau

I think we just played harder than they did.

Carla Thomas

I think we played harder (than in December). We showed more intensity and heart. We were still in it with 10 minutes left. The only reason we didn't pull it out was because we didn't play our game. We stopped playing hard.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

Rex Grossman

I think that's just human nature to make you want to work harder to improve yourself, and I think that'll be a positive for me.

Herman Edwards

It is harder for me because we know all the work he has put into it,

James Williams

I don't know of a kid that worked harder to get where he was at,

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

John Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

Crystal Merillat

He knew that was me talking if he heard that.

Bucky Quici

He'll be around in spirit because he left so many people with the impression of what a nice person is supposed to be like.

Michael Deaver

His thinking was that he wanted to leave the impression of the commentary, rather than of a talking head. He thought the substance was going to last longer.

Adam Eaton

I think they were surprised to see me go back out there. I was under the impression I was going three innings the whole time.

Will Ferrell

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really

Saul Bellow

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Brandon Duckworth

It just seemed like the opportunity was going to be here. The Pirates left me with the impression that this was going to be the right place for me.

Jim Bradley

They are old documents. My impression was it was not privileged information or marked confidential. If all they need is an apology, boy, I'm sorry.

Jim Rosborough

They were very nice. It was my impression they had a marvelous time.

Rachel Dratch

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Andy Schulz

Kids were making plays all over the place. They refused to lose. We refused to lose. Time just ran out. Fortunately, we were ahead.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Lisa Murray

Kids saw their town from a different perspective, through the lens of a camera.

John Lawrence

Kids need to try different things. They're making us do this and we shouldn't be doing this. There is no reason.

Patty Murray

Kids need something in this town to do,

Jamie Lokoff

Kids don't have a place to go. If you're under 21 and older than 14, you have three options: the movies, the mall or your friend's house.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Woody Allen

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Sandra Cisneros

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Rebecca Miller

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Tucker Max

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.

Phil Garner

I thought we were going to him today, but they told him (Saturday) he could not play. I suspected that was going to be the case.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'