Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Will Ferrell

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

Saint Augustine

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

W. C. Fields

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Wilferd Peterson

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

Washington Irving

The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

Richard Wilson

If there's a frustration about the Rosebud season this year, it's that there's not enough Friday nights to screen all the good stuff that's currently available.

Brian Jones

We are currently over the Sahara Desert. We are positioning ourselves to enter the Gulf Stream.

Ed Pinckney

It's sometimes embarrassing when these guys come back, because he makes such a big thing about them being part of the program. They really respect the fact he integrates what they've done with the guys that are currently here.

Romeo Dator

They've had a very good run, year-to-date, and we're probably selling into the strength. There's no indication that there's going to be the second-half pick-up that's currently priced into the valuations.

Christopher Hill

The six parties are currently in the process of evaluating where we are as right.

David Haas

The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Jeff Halpern

This could be a significant negative for Qwest, which is currently a large provider of wholesale transport services to BellSouth.

Robert Lynch

In the end, he did not fully validate the recent decline in the market's Fed tightening expectations.

Lawrence Yun

The larger declines were recorded in the high-priced markets that are more sensitive to mortgage rate changes.

Randy Johnson

Was the decline in the union movement due to a lousy message, or are they going to try a different tactic that will be more effective? It still remains to be seen as all this unfolds.

Keith Schwer

Still, the one-month modest decline in the index is in line with the general trend of economic expansion since 9/11 (terrorist attacks) and the weakness of 2002.

Gail Dudack

The negative of last Friday's decline was not the decline itself, but the complacency of the decline. There's too much complacency.

Greg Eckel

After the huge gains in energy stocks this year, people may be taking some money off the table just to be careful. People may also be selling some shares in anticipation of the usual, seasonal decline early in the year for energy.

Keizo Tanaka

After the sharp decline in the dollar, we were in a situation where we could see a pullback.

Liu Yu

It's natural to see a drop after a long-time rally. The index may further decline in the week as investors trim positions but will probably gain support at the 1,330 level.

Paul Cherney

It should be a positive for the market. The decline was more than expected. It probably has to do with the drop in energy prices that we've seen. To come in down 0.7 is less inflationary pressure.

Mark Boudreaux

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

Donna Karan

He was really the one man who was the voice of the designer. He understood us as designers, and then he could explain us to the consumer.

Brian Snider

If you'd have told me that before the game I would have said you were crazy. But the turnovers pretty much explain it.

Stuart Maxfield

I like to play with people who are responsible for their own domain. I explain to them the vision, but I trust their musicianship and let them take it the rest of the way.

Funkmaster Flex

Can you explain something to me? ... When these guys had some money, how come they couldn't pay to get their records played? That's the thing that keeps sitting with me, if you can pay, why don't you pay and get it on?

John Izzo

I need clarification from the state, to get them to fully explain what their position is and why.

Tom Pecora

I need someone to explain this process to me.

Justina Machado

I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.

Cory Lidle

I'll let them explain what happened, ... because I can't.

David Morgan

We just have to get this right, because there are not enough fish left.

Gary Richardson

He had a big fish on and it just took him,

Yanni

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

Ty Burrell

I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

Samuel Johnson

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Rick Leard

In the long run, we're talking about an individual fishing quota, where the permit holder would have their own individual shares.

Mario Lopez

Being a lure manufacturer gets my mind going a hundred miles an hour. I get a kick out of it. I love to put one of my lures on and ... bam. Have a fish hit it. I love that.

Peter Benchley

The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail

Henry Beard

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Immanuel Kant

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Amy Smith

I just kind of got gradually better and better, and then one day it clicked, and I did pretty well ever since, I'm going to miss it too much after I leave (Manheim Township).

Alan Greenspan

A gradual reduction over time of the GSE portfolios should be a non-event to investors and market participants, other than GSE shareholders,

Howard Waldron

It's going to be a gradual warming trend overnight.

I. Stone

This obviously suggests that if they were going to tighten monetary policy and raise rates, it would be in a very gradual fashion.

Alan Greenspan

We have to do it in a cautious, gradual way. ... (We) should go slowly and test the waters.

Richard P. Feynman

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Henry Shelton

If you did a poll of Rhode Island people, ... they don't want people to be cold, they don't want people to be shut off.

Mark Burnett

The island was a midway staging post for piracy,

Napoleon Hill

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Orhan Pamuk

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Nellie Bly

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

Nellie Bly

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

Julian Baggini

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Muhammad Iqbal

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Siri Hustvedt

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Richard Paul Evans

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Richard Dawkins

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

Wesley Clark

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

Walt Disney

The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be.

Ronald Reagan

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Michael Birch

Resources have underpinned the strength of the market.

Kevin McCarthy

If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.

Michael Garcia

They are now fugitives. We will be using our resources to find them.

Joseph Stalin

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

Stephenie Meyer

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

Jeff Johnson

I have to tell her to slow down sometimes.

Jason Guffey

I?m disappointed because I wanted to win the match, but it?s just going to make me work harder. I can?t let this slow me down at all.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Michael Apted

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Hoagy Carmichael

Slow motion gets you there faster.

Gene Kitts

That's why this is such a slow process.

Bob Johnson

(Brady) really wanted to play a slow tempo. But we got some steals and were able to up the tempo (after the first quarter).

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Andy Williams

I'm surprised at how we played. I thought we would play much better.

Marty Schottenheimer

I should have still been able to get it done. I wasn't surprised they took me out.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Samuel Johnson

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.