Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Gide

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Marcus Pollard

Joey had an excellent game. He really threw some good balls. When you start playing with confidence, you can do that.

Roosevelt Kiser

Josh is our leader and everything, but we had all our confidence in Chris. We knew as a offense we were going to win this game because we knew the defense was going to play until the end.

Joe DeSantis

Job shows us every day in practice that he can make his free throws. He's a freshman but we have confidence in him when he goes to the line.

Eddie Johnson

I think it's a group where we can have a lot of success. I think we can go in with great confidence and match up really well.

Gina Martin

I think it is a critical number. It's one of the first readings we get on consumer confidence post-Katrina.

Cheryl Buffo

I actually wanted her on the line. There were three players I wanted on the line and she was one of them. I had confidence in her. She stepped up and made the free-throws.

Rashad Janahi

I also wish to place on record my gratitude to our shareholders and investors for the trust they have vested in us which gives us the confidence to pursue our growth-oriented investment strategy.

Jose Vidro

He'll be all right. This team goes as far as he goes. It's early and we still have a lot of confidence in him.

Lyle Gramley

Greenspan did not participate in supplying numbers for that forecast -- he refused to do so -- and sometimes in his testimony he didn't even mention the forecast.

Steve Fortuna

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

Warren Buffett

Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

Edward Yardeni

In the last year, I thought we'd get to 7,600, which looked like a pretty far-fetched forecast back then. Now I think we can get to 8,500 by year end. I think there is still potential for the market to move a lot.

Philip Shaw

In reality, Gordon Brown's forecasts will have to be slashed to around 1.75 percent,

Stephen Briggs

In all, we forecast that world lead production will grow by 5.5%-6.0% in 2006 and 4%-4.5% in 2007.

Maury Roos

The forecasts are pretty good ? if we get normal weather henceforth.

Viswanathan Vasudevan

The forecast for the full year and the first quarter has been disappointing. We will have to look into the details.

Walt McDonald

Considering most forecasts projected mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, this could keep the housing market from taking as much of a breather as we have anticipated,

Martin Scorsese

Just when people think he gives you one thing, ... he gives you another.

Doug Wilson

Josh didn't do anything wrong, but this gives us some flexibility on our roster. This is the way the waiver rule should work. Players like that should be playing in this league. We had a good talk this morning.

Kevan Barlow

I talk to him all the time, and he gives me his opinions about our situation, ... He might as well be Nostradamus , because he predicted everything Ê that we're going through.

Jeffrey Edelman

I think it gives them another way to become more visible.

Steve Sanders

I think it gives me more of a leadership role on the team, because some of the guys know I have a son and they see how I act,

Charlene Lui

I think it is a good idea because it gives everyone responsibility.

Harold Wilson

He wanted to play hard. He gives it all he's got. That's why I've got to sub him pretty frequently, because he plays hard.

Bruce Bochy

He can play all three outfield positions and first base. He's a solid player. He gives you quality at-bats.

Dennis Tomasevicz

He just gives it 100-percent everything he does.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Shuchita Mehta

Growth momentum remains strong and that should lead to higher inflation and interest rates.

Zheng Jingping

It is fundamentally normal but it is at the upper end of the potential growth range and we need to take note of it.

Graham Cluley

There is going to be a real growth in 'pump and dump' spam.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Saku Koivu

He's a strong man, tough to maintain down low.

William McDonough

we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.

Barry Hyman

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

David Heyman

It is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.

Joe McCormick

We maintain that our rates are competitive and reasonable and appropriate for the risk in Texas." ()

Randy McClure

We made some adjustments and put more pressure on the ball. The big thing was to maintain what we were doing and we did." ()

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Robert M. Pirsig

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Yuri Milner

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Sam Altman

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Sam Altman

One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Tom Halbmaier

I?m really pleased how well we played. That?s what I?m pleased with. It?s not that we won, it?s how we won. This is the type of game, type of momentum we have to have going into Rogers.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Domanick Davis

It's real frustrating, I'm not going to lie. We keep practicing so hard, then keep losing. We just have to find a way, we can't start pointing fingers.

Larry Harris

Then she starts pointing towards me and shooting and I was shooting back to her.

Tim Ritchey

That is the race I've been pointing for.

Peter Young

All the indicators are pointing in the right direction.

Sylvester Stallone

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

Rumi

I can't stop pointing to the beauty.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Robert Barany

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

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.

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Larry Harris

If you can raise up and shoot from 15 to 18 feet, you can play in this league,

David Scott

It's really a pretty simple model. Raise the pay.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Greg Hawkins

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes a village to put on a triathlon.

Goodman Ace

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

Rick Bragg

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Stephane Dion

There is an urgent need to send a signal to the world about the future.

Nick Nolte

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

Will Rogers

If you send somebody to teach somebody, be sure that the system you are teaching is better than the system they are practicing.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Karen Hill

I had to be here. I was there for the send off, and I had to see 'em back home.

Andrew McDonald

I mean, when somebody like my grandmother sends me e-mail, I know that it's arrived,

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Justin Young

The only thing that's different is that now I'm the short guy,

Thomas Evans

He's done great. He's come a long ways in a short time.

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

Lisa Love

He doesn't take short cuts. He's very methodical, calculated.

Samuel Rogers

To know her was to love her.

Samuel Richardson

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Samuel Richardson

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Sara Atuaia

He's become our go-to player. We need him to keep being strong up from.

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Bible Bible

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

John Gandy

As we got toward the end of the year, he was indicating some things he had to complete.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

David Dearborn

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

Larry Davis

Everything has to go perfect. We're working toward that date. We'll see if we make it.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.