Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Davis

This was our second crab feed and we hope to make it an annual event. The funds raised by the music boosters go for new equipment, trips and scholarships.

Shannon LaRocque

It comes down to liability. Two things have to happen to make this work. One is, Scripps has to have assets to back $100 million. Then, it is possible they are looking to the local governments to help make the annual premiums.

Ann Davis

It is, I think, a little sobering to look at those job growth numbers year over year. The annual numbers are showing a significant decrease throughout the region, and that tends to suggest a slowing economy.

Brian Riedl

President Bush's pledge to halve the budget deficit by 2009 distracts policymakers from the real issue of unsustainable trends in long-term entitlement spending. The president's proposal to slow Medicare's 9% annual growth rate is a good fiscal step, but the budget does not propose enough immediate and bold reforms to the quickly growing entitlement programs that threaten to overwhelm the budget.

Dominic Jones

PDF annual reports are principally useful only for printing, and sometimes for offline reference for experienced users. But they are not usable for online browsing, which is how most individual investors want to view online annual report information. Firms that post their reports only in PDF ignore the needs and preferences of most of their report users and put people off reading the report.

Christina Condos

In the rapidly evolving commercial digital printing market, technology buyers and users need information and support year round. We recognized that the annual ON DEMAND Conference & Expo could be strengthened for both exhibitors and attendees by a dedicated website.

Kornelius Purps

In the near term, the gilt market will react to any economic data release that helps shape investors' BOE view. The annual growth figure was lower than expected, showing continuation of declining growth.

Neely Tamminga

In the belief that this purveyor of authentic brands and unique styles will continue to deliver annual earnings growth of at least 30% helped by comp growth, new-store expansion, and operating margin gains, we reiterate our 'outperform' rating.

Ken McEldowney

If you make a couple of late payments on a new card with an introductory rate, ... your annual percentage rate could jump as much as 15 percentage points.

Richard Bove

I wouldn't own any bank stocks in the Midwest. They're exposed to the problems of the auto industry and the Ford layoffs today are just the latest example.

Pete Crum

He did have a felony warrant for parole violation. One of the original charges was auto theft. We also recovered a large bottle of alcohol, and we will be pursuing an investigation into whether or not he was drinking as well.

John Casesa

I think the auto industry and the economy at large are inseparable. An increase in the cost of money is going to slow down big ticket purchases, and it's inevitable that is going to hit auto sales. I think that's what we're beginning to see in May.

Clint Bowyer

I was an auto body man. I know how to knock out dents,

Harley Shaiken

Whatever the final language, it will be the benchmark of how other negotiations are judged. Since the auto workers won pensions in '48, a lot of things Detroit has done, for good or for bad, has set a pattern. This will be the case, even if the rhetoric of lifetime jobs guarantees outstrip the language.

Susan Howell

We support autonomy in nursing care delivery and professional development. We make sure our nurses have everything they need to provide the safest care for their patients.

Anthony Chan

I think it was interesting that sales fell despite the fact that we had limited auto incentives in November. It raises the question of what is likely to happen once these incentives disappear entirely.

Brooks Robinson

We lost the most beloved Oriole of all time. Not only was Elrod loved here in the Baltimore area, but all over the country. Every ballpark that we would go into, he'd be the first one on the field signing autographs and saying hello.

Ricky Craven

We made up our minds what we wanted out of auto racing, and we stayed with it. You look at where he's at, and at the end of the day he was true to his course.

Rick Krim

I just think the nominees are so strong in the big categories and so deserving, it would be a big surprise.

Gary Shapiro

The consumer electronics industry continues to enjoy healthy growth and consumers are faring even better thanks to competitive pricing and overall price deflation, ... While price declines and competition place pressure on profit margins, these factors also help drive total unit sales as consumers flock to join the digital era. With this in mind, we have upwardly revised sales projections for several product categories in our updated 2005 forecast report.

Michael Strauss

The current system doesn't provide for enough visas. It's plagued with an enormous backlog and doesn't provide enough visa categories to support the U.S. economy's demand for workers.

Tom Vierhile

It's the granddaddy of health claims. To even get in the game with certain food categories like dairy products you have to have a low-fat offering.

Gretchen Rubin

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

Kevin Silverman

While there were no new announcements of partners or categories, which I had speculated about yesterday, it just means we're early on that. There are some announcements that are going to have to come, maybe not today, but there's some big categories that they're missing.

Tiffany Shlain

As the Web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the Web in new directions,

A.G. Lafley

Consumption per capita in our categories in developing markets is about one-third that of developed markets.

Sue Olds

The reason for the discrepancy in many of our schools' scores in the two categories is a mystery, and has been an ongoing question.

Fred Funk

I would think 99.9 per cent of the guys love this course because we don't play many like this. If you play well, you can score.

Stacy Stewart

Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast of Florida.

Stieg Larsson

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Bill Brown

What we have here is the first, and probably only, thematic science center in the world. It's quite sophisticated.

Chris Connolly

He's 100 per cent (fit) in terms of once he recovers from his soreness.

Vito Fossella

Goodbye and good riddance, ... The IFC will not stand on the hallowed grounds of the World Trade Centre site.

Hersh Wolch

His whole concern is the effect it is going to have on him emotionally once it is done. He's giving it 100 per cent effort, but whether he can handle it, I don't know.

Billy Graham

History is full of surprises, and the next century will be no exception.

Ian Shepherdson

The gains were uneven, however, with small declines in clothing and electronics, a decent 0.7 percent rise for general merchandise and a huge leap for non-store retailers. Provided January holds up -- surveys suggest so far, so good -- the overall holiday season will have been pretty good.

Chris Anderson

The focus is the music, but we're trying to make it as much of a show was we can, with the lights and the clothing and the music. It's a party.

Michael Lombardi

They created a lifestyle for people with the clothing, (and) the clothing got fashionable. Everybody wanted to be in that lifestyle.

Jarron Collins

They come find us. On a road trip here (in Charlotte), a clothing company called my room and said 'Do you need anything?' They come to your room with fabric.

O. Singh

The Lord s Name is my clothing, wearing it, I shall never be naked again, and my desire to wear other clothing is gone.

Brent Mull

There were some tears in her clothing that indicated he used some type of cutting instrument to cut away her clothing,

Walter Miller

We want to provide hope. While there are short term needs like food and water these victims have no clothing no housing, ... We want to lift spirits in a time when there's not much to look forward to.

Kim Clijsters

As long as my clothing remains an issue, it is impossible for me to go to the Olympics,

Maajid Nawaz

Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.

Elizabeth Mackay

I would say start with some of the core holdings in technology. I think the technology stocks that will do well are the ones that haven't disappointed with earnings.

Rick Miller

It combines flexibility, strength and endurance, cardiovascular and core all in one. If you swing it 10 to 15 times, your heart rate will elevate quicker than typical weight and cardiovascular training.

Ron Jirsa

I thought Corey Rouse was great down the stretch and really looked good.

Don Gibson

It has always been Cramer's strategy to place inventory at the core of the OSS, as opposed to providing a passive database of record. The power of inventory at the core means that we can use the inventory to drive the systematic integration of wider OSS functionality within one, converged platform.

Stephen Graham Jones

In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story.

Dwight Davis

Interestingly, it sort of raises some of the issues about Microsoft bundling features into the operating system, which of course has been core to the whole antitrust issue.

Walter Dellinger

If there was ever a states' rights case, this is it. The regulation of medical practice has long been a core state function.

Brian Hill

I think our core group of players is here right now.

Mark DiCamillo

Clearly, he's in a vulnerable category. His core is sticking with him -- and just about everyone else isn't.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Susanna Moore

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Jim Calhoun

He?s having the type of season we all expected him to have last year.

Douglas Muzzio

His withdrawal from the race was totally typical of the campaign. He was outside the box. Nobody expected this.

Mike Piazza

I think it's important for the teams that aren't expected to be competitive to be competitive for the good of the sport. For players of Italian descent, it's a small sort of way of thanking Italy for our forefathers and mothers.

Sheldon Brown

I think a lot of the leaders here were young guys and we expected management to handle the situation, that they'd explain what the rules and regulations were. That didn't happen.

Mark Landy

I think a lot of folks had not expected them to be back this quickly.

Amy Evans

I think it was just a matter of being new. The girls didn't know me and my style. We had so many freshman starting that it was a combination of them not knowing me and not knowing what I expected of them.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

DeAndre Rice

Here, he's more humble. He's taking his time with us and learning from the mistakes he made. And he's helping us to be together and play as a team.

Bob Cole

He's a lot better from where he was last year. I think all the reps he is getting are helping him out. He's played more than he thought he was going to play.

Schoolboy Q

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Paul Wolfowitz

Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.

Lynn Upson

Helping other communities is a really big thing for me right now because it's a horrible thing to feel so helpless.

Reid Hoffman

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

William S. Burroughs

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

Samuel Smiles

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

John Rother

Clearly, the COLA is not going to be enough to offset these higher costs, particularly in heating,

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Gregory Klump

In general, the higher end of the market is holding up much better than the lower end.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Will Rogers

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.

Richard Yamarone

Inflation pressures are rising, but at a subdued pace.

Glenn Hubbard

Inflation pressures are quite modest in the United States. I don't think inflation will be a problem this year, or next year, even with the rate cuts.

Leonard Kaplan

Inflation is screaming. All you have to do is look at your life and what it costs.

Robert Parry

It's risky just to sit back and wait for an upward trend in inflation to show up before we do something,

Anirvan Banerji

There will be a time when inflation will turn around.

Hiroshi Arano

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.

Bruce Alston

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Glenn Miller

There's no question that inflation has occurred, and $75 million is not the same today as it was then. That said, from where we sit, what's past is past.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Dan Evans

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

Carmelo Anthony

We've got to roll with it and just move on. Everybody's got to pick up the slack.

Andrew Hanlan

We suspect that will be the only move this year.

David Steel

We think big trends like convergence, and the move to wireless and networking, will play to our strengths.

Scott Peters

I think we need to move past that,

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

J. M. Roberts

There have been some outages but so far, we've had no serious problems other than that the prices are sky-high.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Luscombe

Generally, the unemployment rate is pretty low. I'm not sure they do at this point.

Bill Belichick

I don't rate 'em, but he's pretty good. There isn't much he can't do.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.

James Dunn

I have never seen such solidarity. It was a consistently united voice.

Greg Willett

I have never seen him so white and sick.

Phil Jackson

I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

Lori Crunk

I haven't actually seen it because every time I've been around it's been wrapped. I do know there was some discoloration and swelling.

Nellie Bly

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Martin Amis

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

George Carlin

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

J. D. Salinger

And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)

Friedrich Nietzsche

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

Terry Francona

I can't tell you if, when or where I'll use him. This is an usual circumstance.

Raymond E. Feist

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

Vandana Shiva

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.