Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Charles Schumer

Gun shows, simply put, have become a paradise for illegal firearms sales because felons frequent gun shows to avoid having to go through a background check.

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Rachel Sklar

Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.

Stanley Hauerwas

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

John Hanson

I was concerned about the largest industry in Nebraska, which is agriculture. I have a strong ag background and a lot of business experience. We (as part of Osborne's staff) used our resources to create jobs. I look forward to trying to keep it going.

Ethan Harris

There is a history both in appointments under the Bush administration and the Fed chairmanship itself of people off the list being picked. Bush does seem to have a proclivity to pick people with a more business background for his economic positions.

Richard Bell

There is music all around us, and kids want to be a part of it. Even the video games they play have background music. They want to be able to perform it and re-create it.

Wayne LaPierre

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

Penny Bartley

With this situation here, as long as we had a suspect that had firearms that we knew was shooting at law enforcement and shooting at the helicopter we knew it wasn't safe to leave the freeway open.

Adrian Leppard

During the last 24 hours we have executed a number of search warrants. A number of those search warrants because of the risk posed have involved pre-planned firearms operations.

Alan Gottlieb

We've learned from the police that starting Monday at 8 a.m., New Orleans gun owners can get their firearms back.

Jeff Stinson

...Half of its task is getting people in the stores on a more frequent basis.

Gary Sheffield

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

Seth Shostak

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.

Bob Edwards

The people that show up here are wanting a job, they are wanting to get back into society. The problem is that society hasn't frequently let them back in.

Noureddin Mona

If there are frequent outbreaks, that means some measures are not being taken. The repeated outbreaks really is a signal of seriousness and the inability of the surveillance system.

Damian Woetzel

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

David Hansen

I frequently go out to watch it. The way she takes off and goes up is amazing.

John Schneider

I'm from New York, I'm 53, I have my moments when I'm a nice guy, and more frequently I have my moments where I'm a middle-aged aggravated person. For years I was always the nice guy, so in life I had to pretend to be the nice guy.

Susan Jacksack

The IRS will never come and tell you who is likely to be audited, but generally, filers (who take home-office deductions) tend to be more frequently audited,

Louis Graham

The people who are turning the guns in are not the problem,

Dennis Hastert

We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children,

Sylvester Croom

I thought we got better every day defensively. And we made improvement offensively. We had some big guns out most of the spring.

Robert Logan

I think that it's jumping the gun a little bit,

Anton LaVey

The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.

Brian Dawkins

He has a gun for an arm, but the things he can do with his legs, man.

John Wright

He had a gun on his person. People saw it and called 9-1-1.

Robert Conrad

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

Rob Reiner

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

Bill Rogers

I think their whole search has a pall over it because of illegal actions.

Jerry Owens

I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens. What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem.

H. Hart

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Mariano Puerta

I have not taken any illegal substances as reported. I was suspended two years ago and would never do anything like that again.

Brian Walsh

Any allegation that Representative Ney did anything illegal or improper is false, ... It appears, unfortunately, that Representative Ney was one of the many people defrauded.

Paul Streitz

Danbury is where the illegal problem is the worst.

Debbie Smith

It will be illegal to haze, period. It's just wrong, and it's got to be stopped.

Bill Butler

They know the victims are vulnerable; they are illegal immigrants

Tupac Shakur

There ain't no place like paradise.

Marcel Proust

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

Jacque Fresco

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

Emile M. Cioran

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Matthew Fox

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Thom Yorke

If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Louise Penny

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

Zig Ziglar

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

Maria Rodriguez

In other years, by this time, sales are exploding, but this year it's very slow.

James Cook

A salesman sees a commission.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Rob Spear

It's unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Graham Elliot

I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are.

Gregg Marshall

We've got to win out. That's just the way it is. We've got to see what team shows up (tonight).

Gerard Way

If you come to one of our shows then you're a little f**ked up. That's okay. We're just as f**ked up as you

David Hallberg

I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really.

Before Veeder

It shows what doing the right thing will do for you. There's something to be said for that.

Jeremy Wariner

It shows we compete, year in, year out.

Rob Honzo

It shows us where we are at right now. We are still learning.

Justin Reynolds

It shows us what we can do if we play together.

Casey Todd

It shows us we still have a lot more work to do.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.

Pope John Paul II

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.