Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

Ed McClanahan

The teams are pretty evenly matched. What it came down to is they got more balanced scoring and they got the shots they needed in the fourth quarter to pull away from us and get the win.

Eric Tyson

I've long loved balanced funds, especially for skittish investors, because the bonds mask the volatility of the stocks. When I was doing financial planning, I saw that people often had a hard time keeping in mind the overall portfolio, and a balanced fund kind of forces them to do that.

George Scalise

The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories.

Cathy Kapica

This is an open window on McDonald's food. The math tells the real story -- that McDonald's has the balance consumers are looking for.

Brenda Strong

I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

Celine Dion

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Thomas Powell

Don't live a balanced life. Live an integrated life.

Richard Cripps

And while you are waiting, you get a 3 percent yield and one of the strongest balance sheets in corporate America.

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Dan Hendricks

The Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby are two totally different-run races, with a speed-biased track and short field compared with going back there with a 20-horse field and who knows what the pace scenario will be? This is a big race, a $750,000 Grade I. To win that would be a big deal. The Kentucky Derby is like a one-hand poker game. It's all in with whatever you've got. Whatever comes up comes up.

Malcolm Lowry

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Jonathan Frakes

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

Chris Richard

For whatever reason, we seem to play the better teams tough. It seems that we match up well with teams that have systems compared to teams that are just running around.

Daniel Chan

Given the strong consumer sentiment, merchants have been offering much smaller discount or even no discount compared with last year.

John Smith

GM's February sales improved nicely compared to last month and the prior year, giving us momentum as we move into the spring selling season,

Gerald Schwartzbach

He was denied a fair jury; he was denied a fair trial. This is a man who, as a result of a tainted jury in this case, is being compared to O.J. Simpson ... We're talking about this man's legacy.

John Sellars

One of the problems is that the reporting of data on wildlife crime is extremely haphazard. We don't have any feel for what is taking place compared to trafficking in firearms, humans or narcotics.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Steve Ricchiuto

Sales ex-autos were decidedly stronger than people had given credit for. This is an important piece of information on where the economy was prior to Katrina.

Jim Rogers

The whole world works on credit and the state Legislature can't, ... We need to get in the credit business.

Curt Shaw

Dillon, Jared and Tom deserve a lot of credit.

Bill Cowher

We didn't lose after the bye last year. But that's all right. I get enough losses around here, so I just try to make sure I get credit for some of the wins.

Martha Coakley

Women always did all the work anyway, so we might as well get credit for it,

Brad Ulland

We had a good first quarter and then got flat in the second. We kind of got out of our offensive flow. Give them (Surrey) credit for that.

Dave Tippett

This team has worked hard to get to this point in the season, and you have to give them a lot of credit for that. But I think we realize that this work is just the preliminary work you have to put in if you want to be successful in the playoffs.

Mike Heatwole

Folks from D.C. come up here from time to time to look at a wide variety of things. We don't get very many takers in the wintertime, but we always offer.

Mike Schofield

Folks don't suddenly become tax hawks once they get to Austin.

Richard Doherty

Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be,

Mark Cavanaugh

We couldn't have better folks leading the charge.

Tamora Pierce

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

Toni Cade Bambara

Old folks are the nation.

Sherman Alexie

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

Stuart Ellis

Basically, we looked at a number of different likely culprits that various folks think might be responsible for this shortfall.

Louis Cataldie

My heart goes out to the folks here locally,

Elizabeth Morgan

I've seen a sprinkling of it over the years, but it's out front this year.

Ricky Davis

You saw it right here on the stand, ... Right in front of you.

Carlos Castaneda

There are worlds upon worlds, right here in front of us. And they are nothing to laugh at.

B. R. Hayden

We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me,

George Chapman

As soon as you're here in front of those race cars, ... everything else kind of goes away.

Phil Cline

There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got them cornered.

Jorge Posada

There's nothing he could do. I'm right in front of the plate.

John Swiatek

We were learning what we were doing while we were doing it! We put a front office staff together, and we put a marketing plan together, and we just went for it.

Gene Simmons

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

Graeme Simsion

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

Ben Crane

To this day, the first thing I do when I walk into a restaurant is take off my cap.