Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gleason

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

Philip Klotzbach

Historical records and the law of averages indicate the probability of seeing two consecutive years like 2004 and 2005 is very low.

Debbie Ryan

I thought defensively we did a really good job on a team that averages 83 points per game. I was very pleased with our execution at both ends of the court.

Mickey Mala

Before his last game, he was shooting 64 percent from the floor. He's learning to shoot around the basket. He averages 13 to 15 shots a game and we call a couple plays for him, but he's mostly getting points out of our motion offense.

Nick Vandewalle

The hardest thing is trying to keep everybody happy. We're sharing minutes, and that means some scoring averages go down. But the bonus is having that depth, which we didn't have last year.

Charles Carlson

The Dow Theory says when correction lows are established, you want to see a retest of the highs, and if the retest of the highs in both averages fails and the market goes below those intermediate lows, that is under definition of the Dow Theory, a bear market.

John Brady

Darrell is the key for everything that we do. He plays 35-38 minutes a game (officially averages 36.6) for us.

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

Marty Richards

That's what we do, ... Ben probably averages a hundred yards a game, but he does it on 10 carries.

Joe Clark

I think it is probably just a matter of there being more bears and more people in bear range than ever before.

Max Frisch

He cannot bear old men's jokes. That is not new. But now he begins to think of them himself.

Dick Cheney

has a direct bearing on the quality of the administration that follows it.

Walt Disney

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time

Dave Wannstedt

We thought we'd see some New England Patriots in their offense, ... but it was still Pitt versus Notre Dame, not the Miami Dolphins or the Chicago Bears versus the New England Patriots.

Aristotle

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Peter Cardillo

I think what you're seeing is the process of the market setting a bottom. Obviously, September is living up to its reputation (for volatility), but I think the market will eventually lose its bear grip and focus on the economy and earnings going forward.

Chris Bowman

I think Thursday definitely bears watching for us -- especially southeast Kansas.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Floyd Hall

Kmart's sales for November were slightly below plan due to continued warm weather, which slowed sales of seasonal apparel. Categories showing particular strength for the month included home appliances, seasonal goods, home decor, jewelry, consumables and pharmaceuticals.

John Silvia

Job gains were clearly below expectations and trend. There may be some bounce back next month in specific sectors. Slower job gains may also reflect the impact of higher oil prices and uncertainty in the spring.

Jim McCamant

There are stocks that are so cheap and many of them are trading below their cash value.

Jack Baker

There are so many clouds over the market. I don't see any short-term way out of this mess. Some people are calling for not only a test of the October lows, but for possibly falling below the October lows once we start shooting.

Brian Billick

Haven't seen much of you in a while, ... We're just sitting here kind of below the radar screen.

Royal Bank

Having said this, the rise in U.S. rates overnight does suggest there is scope for another test below $1.20 in the euro today, but we would look to square shorts at $1.1950.

Peter Lai

HKEX is viewed as a good company as the exchange's turnover is expected to rise. Its shares have room to move higher as they are trading at slightly below some of their counterparts.

Craig Pennington

There is an increasing challenge for OPEC next year. If you look at what people expected last year, non-OPEC supplies have disappointed and demand has been stronger. The result has been in OPEC's favor. But next year will be tougher. And they will not want prices to drop below $50 a barrel. They will need to cut production.

Tevester Anderson

He's played below expectations at times, but he's also played well at times. I really like the way he's playing now, though. If he can continue to play like that, it would be big for us.

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Ed Steadham

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Bob Cortelyou

Kiev will be the latest destination in Delta's expansion into the key business and leisure markets of Eastern Europe. Delta will be the only U.S. carrier to serve Kiev, and business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as friends and family of Ukrainian heritage in the United States, will look forward to this new non-stop service between New York-JFK and Kiev.

Peter Warrick

Kit and I talked about this a long time ago. He said it would be a great system for the both of us. I never really thought it would happen. Then, once I got here (for a visit), Kit told me about the coach and how he is such a great guy. Here I am.

Kazunori Jinnai

What we have been seeing today and yesterday is a rather normal correction after the nearly vertical rise in high-tech shares in recent sessions. Investors will be taking refuge in other sectors until high-tech stocks find a floor.

Peter Grandich

Gold's momentum is likely to take it to either side of $600, but then a serious correction is likely to unfold.

Irwin Michael

I think the market correction is a slow bleed. It's being nickel-and-dimed to death.

Tim Heekin

I think we probably need to take it even lower before the correction that we've been seeing is done.

Alan Ackerman

I think we've been in a type of correction since mid-June.

Mary Farrell

I think what we're seeing is really a normal correction and a very healthy correction in what had been a very overvalued sector, the Internet sector.

Graham Secker

If the market does have a correction, the worst-performing sector in that correction will have been the best-performing sector in the last couple of years.

Jeff Saut

If the pattern plays out, you'll get the first decent downside correction we've seen in a year.

Ketan Jhaveri

The market had a nice correction from its all-time high and seems to be back on track. Results so far have been pretty decent and market does not expect any negative surprises.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HASH, x. There is no definition for this word --nobody knows what hash is.

Richelle Mead

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

Tryon Edwards

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Truman Capote

Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.

Robert Penn Warren

In separateness only does love learn definition.

Robert M. Pirsig

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

Saul Bellow

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Warren Farrell

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

Rick Yancey

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

C. S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Michael Ignatieff

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

Jim Tocco

I've seen him in tons of parks and he does the same thing every time, but never fails to make me laugh. He's a versatile funny man.

Martin L. Gross

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

A.J. Chilson

When a number fails to identify a football player try the name on the back of his uniform.

David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Donald Selkin

We may need some new impetus to get past the highs we've hit this year.

Peter Cardillo

It's quite encouraging. The sentiment is better and you've got the indexes passing the highs of the year and holding, so you've got some technical support as well.

Khuram Chaudhry

The likelihood that oil hovers near the $59 mark is not a positive for markets because at that level investors are now looking at new highs for the commodity.

Castor Pang

Most H-shares have reached irrational highs so investors are now taking profit.

Pat Ryan

Look at my career. It's had its highs and lows. I've won everything and I've lost everything.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Hector Elizondo

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

Mahatma Gandhi

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

Ellen Hopkins

Every high has an equal, measurable low.

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Bode Miller

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Anzia Yezierska

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Rider Strong

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

John Milton

Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Larry Wachtel

I think the market has done quite well in what is supposed to be the worst month of the year, but at some point you're going to run into an overbought condition,

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. What he says goes.

Nasir Khan

If you have a Headache, Do what it says on the Aspirin Bottle: Take one, and KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN...

Teri Knight

I'm numb. I'm just waiting for something that says it's for real.

Scott Gomez

Incredible. It says a lot not only for him, but for the whole organization. When you look back on it, it's really impressive.

Allard Baird

I like that. That says a lot about him.

Mark McKinney

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.

Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Samuel Johnson

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Manly Hall

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.

John Brunner

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

Olga Kurylenko

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

Kenneth R. Miller

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.