Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Silvia

I would say the consensus is that the Fed goes to a neutral position on inflation.

Tom Schlesinger

Greenspan is an orthodox thinker in most ways, but you have give him credit for questioning consensus thinking.

Bryan Whitman

I think it's fair to say that these are difficult issues -- they are difficult moral, ethical, legal issues. And one would not expect that everyone would come to a consensus on this.

Cummins Catherwood

When interest rates go up, the utilities don't do so well, and I think there's a developing consensus that they've gone awfully far.

Ward Churchill

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

Gene Orza

Part of our task is to let a consensus emerge.

Councilman Pearlberg

I really can't say for sure what the consensus might be at this time. Obviously, the (landlord ordinance) is not a good one because it violates state law. I think we need to start off with that premise with anything we do.

Daniel Niles

Intel revenue and earnings per share were in line with our expectations, but consensus for 2001 will be slightly down revenue, which has not occurred since 1986,

Li Zhaoxing

Instead, the member states should seek consensus through dialogue and consultation and in accordance with the principle of democratic international relations,

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Peter Green

I think that next week is going to be trying. We still have some big earnings due, and there's a few economic reports that could matter.

Tom Schrader

I think a lot of people are sitting on their hands, waiting for a little more meaningful earnings reports, ... Alcoa was better than expected and we have GE earnings at the end of the week, so maybe that will give us some direction.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Richard Hofstadter

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him...

Richard Hofstadter

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

Richard Dawkins

If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

Umberto Eco

If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

Travie McCoy

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

William Wordsworth

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

William James

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

Frank Martinez

We've been told to say that. (And say) whatever it takes to get that phone line in the receiver.

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Vinny Testaverde

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Steve Alic

In the past, aberrations have occurred to make it one week. It will be two weeks exclusively every year. Two weeks is natural.

Dan Ferrelli

It's possible that not all of the homicides occurred in Aurora's jurisdiction.

Andrew Stuart

It never occurred to me that this was a trick. In this industry, you take somebody at their word.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Robert Finch

They haven't occurred as often as they did previously.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Martin Pyykkonen

In terms of prudence, you would like to see other revenue streams.

Judd Gregg

I'm willing to look at a revenue solution and I'm not going to get too specific about it,

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Dan Burke

The market's not always going to go up, up, up, ... It is important to diversify the revenue stream.

Bill Spencer

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Joan Smith

There are so many goodies to look at. We share because it is so rich, but it is very good.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Tyler Perry

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Will Smith

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

Warren Buffett

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Yehuda Berg

Share love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.

Bob Chernecki

The corporation ... didn't want to share it with the workers.

Dick Franti

We still had our share of mistakes, but we made our way through it. We didn't let them get us down.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Kurt Vonnegut

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Suki Waterhouse

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Adam McKay

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

Graham Cluley

What they did was not intentionally malicious. If anything, it was slightly inept.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.