Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Henley

As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft and does not appear to be improving.

Michael Gregory

As far as the Fed goes, it really isn't inflation on the ground that's a concern, it's inflation down the road. For a very long time, they've offset that with global concerns, but there doesn't appear to be any more world crises to worry about.

Jim Nelson

As far as I could tell, the governor appeared to be trying to get support for the bill on the (Senate) floor.

Randall Luthi

As far as I can estimate from the preliminary projections ... it does appear that we may have unexpected revenues of approximately a billion dollars,

Mark Ternent

As a result of Pennsylvania's large human and bear populations, bears and people are coming into contact frequently. These encounters occur because housing developments and businesses continue to encroach into bear habitat and more bears are living closer to people than ever before. Chance encounters in the field also appear to be more common than before in some areas.

James Mays

As currently envisaged by some proponents, the program would appear to serve more as a revenue-generating scheme than a security program that would benefit passengers.

Anthony Chan

The bottom line is that consumers experienced a soft patch in the first quarter and they appear to be emerging from it,

Chris Morrison

The bottom line is I would expect some form of debt exclusion question to appear on next April's ballot, either to cover the design costs or the whole thing, ... We cannot obtain state approval and the funding that comes with it without a commitment from the voters.

Sean Maloney

The business market remains slow for PCs, but it doesn't appear that we have lost significant market share, ... Average selling prices are about where we thought they would be.

Ehud Olmert

I very much hope that today's decision will be in effect for just a short period. I hope ... we will be able to bring a new government to parliament for approval as quickly as possible.

Jesse Goodman

This is an important approval for patients who need lifesaving immune globulin products. This new product provides a unique new treatment delivery option to patients and their physicians.

R. Robinson

This could not have happened without the approval of Michael Chertoff as well as Attorney General John Ashcroft and Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson.

Charles M. Schwab

My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men.

Carly Fiorina

Completion of the FTC review marks a major milestone in the approval process, and we are now focused on winning the shareowner vote,

Melinda Newman

Do they have an impact? Absolutely. People feel they have a 'Good Housekeeping' seal of approval, that any CD they see in a Starbucks already has the Starbucks seal of approval, and therefore they're going to like it.

Richard Boucher

At this point we are waiting for the final approval from the Saudi government. We will keep in touch with them. We think this can be worked out.

Rutherford Hayes

Coming in, I was denounced as a fraud by all the extreme men of the opposing party, and as an ingrate and a traitor by the same class of men in my own party. Going out, I have the good will, blessings, and approval of the best people of all parties . . .

Jason Crowell

Committee approval is a significant victory for Ethan & Friends for Autism because it is a step toward increasing awareness. I?m glad that the organizations? efforts are paying off, and I?m honored to have been a part of the process.

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Roy Sommer

The bottom line is, they've done a great job here developing players. Heck, half their guys are in Buffalo.

Ed Snider

The bottom line is they should not be taking a chance.

Danny Sullivan

The bottom line is, they're doing everything they can to take on Microsoft at its own game.

Andrew Booth

The bottom line is they outworked us (last time) and we have to step up to the challenge.

Justin Wilson

The bottom line is, they don't seem to have any weak areas.

Jalen Rose

The bottom line is they did a good job of denying our play. Guys were trying to do what they could to get open. ... I heard him say 1-1,000, but I think he forgot the other four.

Dan Niles

The bottom line is they (Cisco) said the bottom may be one-to-two quarters out so that puts you back to firm footing with reality saying this is not over yet.

Dean Fryer

The bottom line is they cannot employ workers until they have it.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Rose McCaulay

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Thomas Sharp

That's where we really have a traffic flow that the road cannot handle now. The sections in between, quite honestly, can handle the traffic flow -- don't need to have new capacity added.

Seiji Maehara

Prime Minister Koizumi is making comments as if there is no problem but...he cannot escape moral responsibility.

Angus Campbell

Profit taking cannot be ruled out, especially if oil prices head north.

Albert Einstein

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Roy Coates

Our seniors have experienced so much, including two championships. They have become so experienced and have a lot to offer to the other girls. There's always talent out there - talent is easy to find, but the personality and the leadership of these girls cannot be replaced.

Julia Huff

Other browsers may work well with the version we are using now, but they have not been tested. Because of our tight schedule and resources, we cannot do that testing now.

David Davidson

Offering more humanely produced eggs naturally fits our commitment to foster goodness and decency in our students.

Mark Williams

Despite the fact with the issues we have with supplies, etc, we're standing by our commitment.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Larry Usher

These seniors knew that we expected two things from them: commitment and team-first (attitude). These underclassmen know from watching the seniors.

Bryant H. McGill

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Chester Nimitz

A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder

Susanna Kearsley

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.

Jonathan Anderson

The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ... Wages and costs are going up in China. The economy is already past its peak. This is no longer the easy money you had in 2002 and 2003.

David Marshall

Barge shipping costs have exploded. Right now, barge freight has traded at a record high, from the Ohio (River) to New Orleans.

Thomas Jefferson

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Don Pether

Profitability was negatively impacted by significantly higher costs for purchased slabs, raw materials and energy and a significant drop in market pricing.

Edwin Slaghekke

Production costs have now become the most important factor for oil companies. They will drag down the shares.

Anne Mulcahy

Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower costs and operational improvements. We delivered another quarter - and another year - of earnings growth.

Ron Dennis

Norbert's frustration is if it costs us the constructors' championship it is not particularly nice,

Steve Cohen

The Breeders' Cup is one of the most anticipated events of the year. From the track, to the jockey's room, to the paddock, we will offer unprecedented coverage of the Breeders' Cup with our team of horse racing experts.

John Rose

Radio will also be crucial. There will be 13 radio specials that will cover all formats.

Jeff Fager

People don't want to leave it. They want to stay, even though covering Katrina has been so difficult and painful in so many ways.

Steve Finley

Defensively, it's easier here. They pull the right fielder over to cover the gap, and it makes the field smaller.

Kevin Thomas

Cold.. Extremely cold.. Don't leave any unprotected skin.. You cover everything up.

Lawrence Wilkerson

The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office,

Dan Hill

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

Porter Goss

the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up.

Deion Sanders

I've never been in a position where I blitzed on occasion, but now I can drop into coverage or blitz.

Goolam Ballim

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Michael Tanner

The Social Security surplus is always being spent. Now it's going to defense and rebuilding rather than paying down debt. From a psychological standpoint, spending it may even be good for privatization. Opponents might use that surplus as a hedge, saying we've got money in a lock-box and don't need to privatize.

Dick Hamilton

So we're paying about $2 million a year on debt reduction,

Kevin Watkins

on debt at least it sounds encouraging, it seems there has been some progress.

Steve O'Connor

Some people say you should pay down as much debt as possible. But you might make more by investing the money.

Brian Redican

The state's doing it tough. And the fundamentals of weak house prices and record household debt mean there's not much light at the end of the tunnel.

Martin Feldman

It would be imprudent for RJR to pay down any of its existing debt,

Richard Bove

It would have been difficult for Goldman not to do well. Goldman is more oriented to equities than debt, and stocks rose throughout the period.

Dick Bronson

I understand that some debt disappears. But this steep incline ... this is serious stuff.

Marianne Cusato

Properly designed and planned, a 1,000-square-foot house can meet a family's needs perfectly, whether it is permanent or emergency housing.

Robert Baker

After you've designed and placed an organ as well as you possibly can, some well-meaning lady is able to ruin the whole thing by donating memorial carpeting.

Pat Abeln

An engineer is designing the runway right now.

Ed Mierzwinski

A rate is something everybody pays for their service. This is a penalty that is designed to prevent you from shopping around.

Nick Brown

These measures are not an issue of human health but are designed to prevent the spread of the virus in livestock,

Brian O'Neill

The solutions to the problem are relatively simple. We can design seats and head restraints that are not expensive, that can eliminate a lot of these injuries.

Charles Curtis

The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed,

John Grele

The system has been designed perhaps a little haphazardly and swiftly.

Mike Hess

The spacesuits are designed for a considerably longer period of time.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Carl Erskine

Sometimes it seems the more you know, the less sure you are of yourself, ... I can just sit back and watch and not have to sweat it out for either side. What I know is, anything can happen in a short series.

Yoweri Museveni

Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . . . the one I am flying all the time. I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked, or there was some side wind, or the instruments failed, or there was an external factor.

Marsha Blackburn

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

Thomas Campion

Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.

Roger Monson

Russia could go down 50 percent or up 150 percent. Either they do it or they don't.

Jonathan Coleman

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

Steve Erickson

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Mark Richt

Quentin is thinking it all through before making a decision. I don't think either one is 100 percent sure about what he's going to do yet.

John Cannon

As of right now, we don't expect to file any charges.

Stephen Thomas

As long as they are treated like stadiums, I don't expect any problems.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

John Tiziani

That was a big game. You don't expect him to have that many points.

Will Whitehorn

That's where we expect to be in production.

Brooke Bingaman

Rain like we have just seen is the kind of thing you expect to see once every 10 years.

John Browning

Prices are expected to be well supported into the winter,

Eileen collins

Personally , I did not expect any large pieces of foam to fall off the external tank

J. Horton

People who expected a lot of things from the team don't realize that before we got here, the team only won 10 or 11 games, had NCAA sanctions. And people wanted national championship success right away. We knew it wasn't going to be like that. We knew it was going to be a long grind and a process. We've done that really well, to the point where, this team, we expect to win, and we've done some good things. It's been a great ride.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

John Curtin

As a member of our team you played the game. Now you form a team with a man of your heart for the highest natural purpose.

Menander of

A woman is necessarily an evil, and he is a lucky man who catches her in the mildest form

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

George Eliot

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Channing Toney

People used to make fun of my form also, but I stayed with my form, so I think it's important for him to stay with it.

H. Hunt

People don't have to be in spiffy uniforms: they can... just so long as they can form a military presence and impress the population.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Sarah Hale

Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Russ Williams

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

Dena Erwin

There is no indication that sheriff's funding was affected.

Pat Dunn

With funding for restoration already lined up, we're ready to move quickly. Our goal is to restore the property to high-quality, native prairie as quickly as possible.

Phil Brown

We weren't funding the (gang outreach) program much anyway.

Judy Batusich

We haven't been able to secure any funding yet.

Tim Butler

We're looking at several different sources. We haven't secured a particular funding stream yet.

John McIlwain

Right now, many people are in limbo and don't know whether to rebuild or what to do next. There needs to be a plan, and there needs to be funding for that plan, but right now there is neither.

Jeremy Duxbury

A sponsorship is on line and we will not let it down.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Dawn Olivieri

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

Paul Taibi

People say we are a one-line team because that one line is so dominant. We have some high-profile players, but we have more than just those people. It's a total team effort.

Carolyn Wright

People have actually stood in line at the supermarkets to vote and sign to vote. We now know we are not alone.

Barry Trotz

The moons didn't line up that way ... That's neither here nor there.

Steve Johnson

Defensively, (Penn) took us out of our game. They didn't give us anything free, and when you go to the line only (three) times and them 17, that's a difference, too. But it was their defense. They just took us out of our rhythm.

Mike Tannenbaum

Anthony is an experienced veteran who provides our offensive line with flexibility and depth.

Sam Nunn

a production line of nuclear weapons ... will not be permitted.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Granth Sahib

Tell me, without the worship, who has ever obtained the supreme status?

Robin Roberts

In order to obtain original period clothing, you need to go everywhere.

Guru Singh

They redeem their generations, and they themselves obtain the state of liberation.

Michael Rains

What we're saying is, who are the real cheaters? They are the ones who are using these illegally obtained materials.

Tom Daschle

As a veteran, there is no question that I stand strongly with the troops,

Sean Avery

No question that this is a way (for the league) to do something to me,

Pete Carroll

No question it helps. I wish I had two weeks for every game.

Stephen Hess

No question about it. It is overwhelmingly the issue.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Bob Goin

The stakes are higher, ... There's no question about that.

Allen Mesch

The summer's going to be without much question very bad.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Apolo Ohno

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

Kyle Miller

This is really for the state of Texas.