Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Nick Vandewalle

Defense has been the key for us throughout the playoffs. We were able to able to keep (MCC) in check, and that allowed me to use some reserves in the second half.

Chris Wilson

Dealing with young people, it's always a new experience. You never know if they're ready until they get out there. As long as they play with great effort, I'm happy. The injuries have allowed us to give some guys opportunities.

Chris Duhon

Compared to this, things like my new contract don't mean that much, ... There are bodies floating in the water. A lot of houses have been destroyed. When all of this is over in another week or so and people are allowed to go back home, what will they go back to? It's a tough situation to handle.

Graeme Cox

Companies are hamstrung under the way they are allowed to operate. You have to just do your own thing. There will be opportunities to bid for work and to get a slice of the pie.

Mark Shapiro

Coco and Grady have similar skills, and we're extremely excited about Grady's future. Coco profiles best as a center fielder, which allowed us to be opportunistic and get a whole lot of value for him, which, in the end, was too much to turn down.

Mark Walters

Coach drew up a couple of plays in the huddle that allowed me to create a little more space.

Steven Drucker

Developing the technology was quite a complex challenge. The automated camera control wasn't too tricky. The automatic connection that allowed people to connect to the games as they were played was more difficult. But the most difficult was video distribution. Eventually we realized that a distributed model with no centralized server was the best route.

E. P. Thompson

Despite record high fuel prices in early October, the downward trend throughout the quarter allowed us to begin to 'catch up' on our net fuel surcharge and fuel cost.

John Slenker

Another reason for fewer jobs is the increased productivity by companies. More production is gotten out of few people because of automation and improved manufacturing processes.

Tony Stewart

Any time a great driver like that or a great group of drivers speak highly of you like that, that's probably the greatest honor in auto racing you can have. To hear those comments, that's better than any trophy I've ever received in my life.

Ding Chaoyu

The strong performance of auto shares helped stabilize sentiment, but many sectors, such as metals and properties, are under profit-taking pressure.

Michael Woolfolk

(The survey) was a big surprise this morning, but some of the market is saying that Detroit, because of loss of auto jobs, does not reflect the rest of the nation.

Greg McBride

Stringing a car loan out is not healthy. Four years on an auto loan is normal. Seven years is not. Your loan shouldn't last longer than the car.

Peter Kretzmer

Spending ended the quarter on a strong note, and that largely reflects the return of growth in auto sales. It's confirmation that spending was getting back on track.

Jim Sanfilippo

Sales are going to be down a bit, and it's because of gas prices that haven't seemed to come down. The end of the month hurt the auto manufacturers. People were saying, 'Are gas prices finally going to fall?' And they didn't.

Joe Wiesenfelder

The search traffic that is generated for cars unveiled at the various auto shows is a good barometer of how well the car was received by consumers. It's too early to see how well the searches will translate into sales, but new introductions like the Toyota FJ Cruiser and Saturn Sky have already generated a significant number of consumer email leads to dealers.

Tim Ghriskey

It was an extremely strong quarter in a very difficult environment for the auto industry and really shows that the restructuring ... is on track.

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Stephen Browning

Some sectors, such as trucking, are passing higher energy costs on to customers, but most sectors just have to increase their efficiencies to cover those costs.

Gary Craig

Some processors up north are being helped by conservation clubs, ... We're all in the same boat, regardless of who the processor is. Costs have gone up and if the season is warm, I'll have to rent extra semis to hold the deer. I have five semis of my own, but that may not be enough. Just the paper and double wrapping the ground venison is costing more.

Michael Boyd

Southwest has to expand aggressively over the next two to three years because they've got to spread out their costs in order to keep their fares down. They have high labor costs and in order to protect their costs they have to put out more product.

David Passey

Texas is a much larger state than Louisiana, where the per capita costs are much higher.

Francis Bourdillon

So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears.

Mitch Kapor

Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.

Sandra Collins

Right now, we're just putting together different scenarios, looking at where portions of our service are, where likely stops could be, looking at costs and usage statistics,

Don Stewart

Draper decided he wanted to make what I think is more of an attention-getting than a suicidal gesture and cut his right arm.

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.

Ken Lee

Demand has strengthened since July because of tax cuts and incredibly low unemployment. Sales at our stores were about 5 percent higher than the same time a year earlier.

Adam Isacson

Coca production was not going to be reduced just because fumigation flights spray some fields as long as these farmers don't have any other economic options, except to cut down forests to grow coca somewhere else.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

William Jefferson

These monies are used for food, diapers, medicines, and other essential items. For FEMA to cut off these funds now is unacceptable,

Lawrence Yun

The strong rise in prices cut into affordability, even with the low rates.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Greg O'Connor

You might wonder about the wisdom of that policy.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Daniel Petrocelli

And your response was bam! I'll pay for that too.

Albert Pujols

(Edmonds) made them pay. I know he's going to make them pay a lot.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Publilius Syrus

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Bernardo Alvarez

Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership.

Bruce Steinberg

Between you and me, you want to be the only one getting the pay raise, and not everyone else.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Pat Herron

We had to come out focused, like we do every game. You've got to keep playing, because if you don't play 100 percent you get hurt.

Steve Simmons

Those refineries provide about 25 percent of U.S. needs,

Carolyn Wright

We're Utah. We'll be running 90-95 percent (capacity).

Kaylee Brown

There's no reason to go 50 percent from the free-throw line.

Keith Winkowski

There's nothing to say we have to go 4 percent higher.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Wang Yongzhi

This is a significant breakthrough of China's space technology since the successful spaceflight of manned spacecraft Shenzhou-5.

Jim Melcher

This is probably the most unusual week we've had in the stock market, at least since 1929.

Shannon Sharpe

You've talked about it since 2001, and here it is 2010 and you're still talking about it.

Joe Jamail

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

Jim Carrey

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

James Nesbitt

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Anne Hathaway

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.