Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jami Safrit

That was really a momentum builder and I thought it would change the pace of the game for us. We got within six, but, you've have to hit them when they count, so I should've hit them in the first half.

Michael Strahan

Today was a morale builder for us. We've played better and we've played worse. But hopefully, this will be the start of an upswing that can take us through the postseason.

David Rice

Time is the enemy. The more time builders have to get into our neighborhood, the worse our chances of getting protection will be.

Jay Butler

Most of the investors are gone, and traffic is down in home builders' sales trailers. Just look at all the ads. Builders are trying to move homes fast.

Andres Duany

Most of the builders seem to think what we want to do can be done, or are willing to try.

Suzette Hartvigsen

Those first two were big confidence builders for us. We knew with the weather the way it was, that we needed to jump on them early.

Dennis Smith

I think most of the big builders will struggle to meet last year's totals. Any time you have interest rates on the rise, you're going to have higher cancellation rates.

Keith Gumbinger

I would definitely expect more of it. Buyers may not pay for it. The seller or builder may pay for it to get a house sold.

Mike Evans

I lost my poise a little, but it was frustrating. I thought it came after the buzzer. It feels like we always have a bullseye on our back. That was a big momentum builder for them. In a big game like this I wish they would let the kids decide the game.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Rob Lowe

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Kathy Sierra

That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was weird, because there was just like a big ol' gap in between all these buildings and you could tell where the damage had been done.

Margo Jonker

That was a great swing by Crews. I thought we were going to get right back into the game after that. It seemed building from that, we just weren't energized.

Justin Huber

That was a great start to the game, it really got everyone up from the beginning. We just kept building on our play from that point on.

Chris Laplante

We have all of the original plans, about 130 sheets of plans, that we used in designing and building the Texas State Capitol Building.

Paul Watson

We have also made the decision to have only 1 per cent of the fund invested in fixed interest. Instead, we use investments like the RG Casey building in Canberra to deliver a higher annuity style income for rents for long periods.

Jim Balsillie

We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm.

Larry Penley

We got off to a good start. Our kids were really throwing darts with their irons and the greens are putting real well. You're going to see a lot of good scores after this round - not just ours, but from a lot of people.

David Penn

We're not throwing darts at a dart board. There is a methodology that's been developed over the last 30 or 40 years.

Billy Mayfair

It's not just standing up there and shooting darts at the green all the time.

Michelle Samarel

I love to play and I love to win. But mostly it's just a really fun night to play darts and hang out with a great group of people.

Eddie Olczyk

I like the way he played. He has acceleration on-ice presence, he finds the holes, picks his spots and darts to them. He has speed and skill.

Germaine Greer

It was as if we were playing Manhunt. It was a kind of lethal darts match.

Steve Kamman

If you're throwing darts at the wall, maybe.

Pat Verbeek

He's a quick little forward. He darts around. Especially with today's NHL, there's a lot more room for quick little forwards.

Jim Calhoun

He's one of the most memorable players we've ever had if you think about just how spectacular he's been and the darts he's thrown at teams.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Rhonda Rompola

That was a very frustrating moment. Unfortunately, the official didn't hear me and I didn't want Cobb taking it, but she did have a decent look.

Gary Evans

We have tried to treat our people like we want to be treated. We try and pay a decent wage and have been fortunate to hire some really good people.

Rick Rudesill

We were getting decent looks, but they were going in and out. The panic set in and we stopped doing the little things to score.

Mark Riggin

With the experience that we have, we should have a decent year. A lot of these guys have three years of varsity experience. They know what I expect, and we want to win the section and win a playoff game.

Jim Whitesell

We're really thankful. It's a decent rivalry without over-the-top crazies. They saw a good game.

Henry Hewitt

Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but so what?

Chris Mitchell

Miami has a decent shot ... I have the opportunity to play early.

Steve Bates

You can be reasonably sure you're getting a decent investment there.

Imelda May

I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

Bill Cosby

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Patrick McGurn

The '90s was the slippery slope from managing expectations to managing earnings to outright fraud.

William Prophet

The 10-year is not reflective of the fact the overnight rate is going to 4.75 percent in six weeks. It may have to do with carry. As long as you're earning positive carry, people don't mind holding 10-year notes.

Bill Winters

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Edward Keon

We've gotten more optimistic on earnings on U.S. stocks recently.

Tom Izzo

We're working towards it, but he's got to keep earning it, too.

Stephan Droxner

VW had very strong earnings in the fourth quarter, but it was not only the numbers that were good -- overall, the tone is more optimistic now than after the third quarter.

Kyle Clearman

You have those nights when you are feeling it, and my teammates kept feeding me.

Deborah Nigrelli

One thing about our pantry that makes us different is that we're feeding people on a weekly basis.

Mark Latham

I had a suspicion for some time now that Rudd has been feeding material to Oakes,

Anthony Slack

I felt like I was in a zone and every time I got the ball, it was going in. My team was feeding off me and I felt the energy.

Stephen Perkins

He's kind of feeding off what we're doing visually and vice versa.

Gary Schultz

He was kind of irritated about the sound system. They had a microphone in the piano, and it was feeding back.

Eric Balfour

By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

Kim Newman

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.

Pauline Marois

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

Anthony White

The police officer said, 'Drop the gun!' He said it four times. The guy just turned around and pointed the gun right at the cops.

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Big Sean

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Denise Morrison

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Natalia Vodianova

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Carl Sagan

I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

Bill Bryson

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

Joe Biden

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Daniel Craig

We can't go fully monty in Bond, Because we can't get the rating.

Magic Johnson

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

Tom Daschle

time bomb. This is going to be $4-to-$5 trillion when it is fully implemented.

Marcia Wieder

Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.

Peter Scolari

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

Ian Shepherdson

Most notable was the leap in the prices-paid index, ... this is simply a reflection of higher oil prices but it may not have been fully anticipated in the markets.

Ricky Stuart

Whether he runs out or not, he'll be out there at some stage, and we'll find out whether he's still recovering or fully recovered from that shoulder problem.

William Ackman

I think McDonald's is doing the right thing and we fully support it.

Elliot Washington

We have a habit of being lackadaisical, playing up and down.

Carlos Tosca

I worried he'd hit me in the coconut, so I got into the habit of turning my back to the plate when we had runners on second and third.

Vince Lombardi

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Marc LaVorgna

We don't feel like we have any habitual offenders at the airport. Otherwise they wouldn't be operating at the airport.

Michael Redhill

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

David Hogan

Habitat protection for the toad translates into water quality protection for the people.

Gerry Jones

He was very knowledgeable about their habits and what it would take to get rid of them.

Gordon Auchincloss

He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.

Mike Mularkey

He has some talent there running the ball. I don't want him to make a habit of it, but with a first-year quarterback, the thought process speeds up and typically the first instinct is to run.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Bill Budge

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

Danielle Chaisson

The 3s at the start of the second half put us in a big hole. We made some sloppy passes and they capitalized.

Matt Gibson

That was the key to the whole game. We had a six-point lead in the first half and a four-point lead in the second half. (The Knights) got their leads because they rebound.

Mark Cuban

That was the worst half of officiating I've ever seen. That was terrible, and I want it on the record I said that at halftime, no matter what the outcome.

Chip Taylor

That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.

Mark Belenski

That woke us up. We did not play well in the first half of the Hoban game.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Sam Johnson

We were friends for 40 years. He was quite a character.

Patrick Chidley

We have been warning that (Placer) would get taken over for quite a long time.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Peter Smith

Most of them did sell. I think only two or three are left.

Jim Tressel

Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

William Shakespeare

Our praises are our wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Jane Allen

Even with us working on weekends and evenings, we can't get it done by tomorrow.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Emilia Fox

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Isabel Gillies

My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.