Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

Walt Disney

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time

Peter Cardillo

I think what you're seeing is the process of the market setting a bottom. Obviously, September is living up to its reputation (for volatility), but I think the market will eventually lose its bear grip and focus on the economy and earnings going forward.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Dixie Jones

I was kind of concerned about them because we didn't know much about them. I said before the game I hope we aren't walking into a bear trap. But we jumped on them early and I think that helped.

Drew Altman

We may be looking at the start of a fundamental shift in what we mean by health insurance, from a system where we share risks to one where it's up to individuals to make their own deals and bear their own risks.

Dean Cain

I actually got better grades during football season, when I had no time, because I had to bear down and work a little harder.

Joe Ely

He was not only a great drummer but our favorite person to hang around with. He was this big, lovable bear with tons of great stories.

Millicent Fenwick

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice.

Jimmy Jerkens

I don't know why they did what they did (stewards disqualification). It was clear that he was the better horse. We can work on it (tendency to bear in). He's a lot better today than in his last race. He'll probably be even better when we get him back home to New York. We'll likely point him for the Wood (Memorial). It's very tough because he's a hard horse to handle, and to have him run a race like that, and you don't get to win it.

Josh Cribb

Having a big game like I did tonight and having a game where I'm able to keep my pitch count down through nine innings is going to help out the bullpen the rest of the weekend.

Laura Barrett

Handing a laptop to kids isn't necessarily going to be a magic bullet for improving student learning.

Ken Macha

Halsey, that was a great effort by him. And the bullpen came through again.

Phil Garner

Having Marquis in the bullpen is probably going to help a little bit. Even though some probably are going to say their bullpen is a little suspect right now, I don't look at it that way.

Alex Jones

I was concerned whoever did what they did would put a bullet in my head.

Devon Bostick

I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn't help much either. It was really tough.

John Caudwell

I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.

Larry Rice

I think we're very close to the end of this particular correction. The bull market's not over by any means. We need several increases in interest rates before stocks top out.

Marcus Camby

I was able to spend like two hours at the hospital (with Hodge, who could be released from Swedish Medical Center as soon as today). I would never think that a guy that took as many bullets as he (did) would be in the (good) spirits he was. Hopefully, he'll make a fully recovery like they said he would.

Keira Knightley

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Chamberlain Oguchi

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Jan Pronk

I think it is to a certain extent youngness of the administration and overemphasis on domestic policies rather than on international policy-making,

Tom Schrader

I think investors are reacting positively to what's going on right now, with this new phase of the war. The more certain investors are that things are going well -- and they seem to be going very well -- the more hints we have that Saddam may be dead, the more investors are going to jump in.

Stephen Hess

It certainly has some effect on his immediate domestic agenda. He has no money for anything but Katrina.

Aaron Boone

It certainly doesn't impact me much this year. You never know what's going to happen down the road, but I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on me this year. If it does, then I'm not doing my job, anyway.

Dennis Ruedinger

It certainly doesn't get old. As you progress through a season, you grow closer and closer to the guys on the team. Each season is its own entity. Watching your team grow and get better, that never gets old.

James Murphy

We knew who the individual was. We knew the type of vehicle he was driving. He went by the location where we were standing, where he had previously dumped all the trash.

John Cousins

I've been dumped by girlfriends and taken a lot of other hits, but this one really, really hurt. I lost a lot of sleep over this.

Alan Vega

And when I finally got dumped from Elektra, which was pretty good, though at the time it was kinda painful, I just turned things around.

Gordon Bethune

For some reason TSA thinks that dumping out our passengers' underwear at the gate after it has already been dumped out at the security screening checkpoint makes TSA look like they are on top of things.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Willis McGahee

Cincinnati's D-linemen were great. They did a good job as far as holding us up and making us kick field goals. It was an excellent job, keeping their pads low, and just standing us up.

Michael Strahan

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Wang Meng

I'm sure they had a strategy to work together. But I don't know. It must be said the Korean girls are excellent in the sport and they are working together.

Hubertus Erlen

The excellent first-quarter figures will propel us towards reaching the goals we have set ourselves for 2006.

David Pascoe

Law enforcement officers are held in a position of trust and they are held to a higher standard. That is why allegations like this are so troubling.

Gary Mitchell

I just held him like I would my own son.

Stacy Kim

I played pretty well. I missed a lot of putts that I could have made. I stuck it out and held it together.

Islam Karimov

The trial will ... be held in mid-September, on September 20,

Adrian Beltre

It's not a physical thing; my body's held up fine,

Ann Cooper

They're held for months at a time, never charged.

Wayne Coyne

People think its more high-tech than it really is with all the video and all that. It's still held together with duct tape.

Shawn Amos

Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.

Ian Stacker

The team has to be held accountable for wresting back the momentum.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

William McKinley

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Samuel Smiles

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Tupac Shakur

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Robert Teeter

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

Robert Teeter

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

Robert Townsend

If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Pat Hill

He said, 'I think you can learn from others,'

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Ernie Grunfeld

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'll learn from it.

Shawn Olsen

I didn't come out pitching like I should have. I wasn't really myself. We'll learn a lot from these losses.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Mark Pervan

It had a pretty strong run, so the market is taking profits.

William LeFevre

I think this market is going to go a lot higher.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Emyr Parry

If you can do one centrifuge, you can do 164. If you can do 164, you probably do many more. That means you have the potential to do full-scale enrichment. If you can do enrichment up to 7 percent, you can do 80 percent. If you can do 80 percent, you can produce a bomb.

Kurt Knaus

Their certifications are suspended. That means they can't occupy those positions in any mines in Pennsylvania, but they could occupy for other positions. For example, they can be miners.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

Pat Riley

It was a ploy ... a way to get them to think bigger. It means something, but it's not what we are playing for.

Flip Saunders

It just means we can put different people out there and play different ways.

Skyler Green

It just means that much to some people down here.

Todd Bertuzzi

It means I've played a lot of games. It's nice but it's not something I want to stop at.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Jon Favreau

I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Nick Holmes

I think every relative we know will (be at the game).

Hu Shih

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Joyce Smith

She's shown us things we didn't know about.

Ted Johnson

shown you no hair, no fibers, no eyewitnesses. Not one.

Karen Thurman

I think the Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt, more important lately, they've show us how incompetent (they are) and how they have been divided. I think those are important themes and strategies for us as we go forward.

Peter Sorensen

Using these extracts has been shown to work,

Stephen Hawking

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Robert M. Pirsig

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

Zhang Ziyi

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

Marc Benioff

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Narendra Modi

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.