Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Shelton

We take a lot of pride in earning the number one seed. However, we also realize that means all the other teams will be gunning for us. It is always a little more difficult beating the same team twice in a season. Hopefully we'll be up to the task of defending our title.

Joe Tiller

I don't have a problem with him being held accountable. But when it is brought up and repeated, it is like beating a dead horse.

Josh Satin

I'd like to prove a point that our league is better than any other league. The only way to do that is by going out and beating a quality Big 12 team.

Carlos Rodriguez

I'd lock myself in my room and take out my frustration by beating my drums.

Zach Schade

I don't know that it's a rivalry -- it's a lot of support. We don't talk about one beating another. We kind of push each other to keep training.

Carolina Kluft

I am capable of of beating my personal best (7001 pts set at the 2003 world championships in Paris) but the world record seems too high.

Lenny Bernstein

He's certainly built a lot of confidence throughout the year. I think he's had some milestones to get over, and now he's beating some guys who are ranked in the top 20.

William Kelly

He's beating himself up because he managed to get out and she didn't,

Ned Yost

He's beating himself. That's what is frustrating. He's not making the other team beat him. He's beating himself. His stuff is too good for that.

Hugh Johnson

It confirms that as we started the fourth quarter the economy continues to slow, ... At the same time that the economy is slowing, there is ongoing tightness in the labor markets and ongoing upward pressure on wages.

Robert Sinche

I think the housing data continues to allay some of the worst fears on how the economy might slow, and has some impact on how the Fed may act next year.

Neal Soss

It is magnificent that inflation continues to be low, but retail sales are smoking.

Steve Carell

He does his job just well enough to keep it. The ridiculous exploits and faux pas are just this side of lawsuit territory so he continues to ride the wave of inefficiency and lack of expertise. I don't think that's necessarily unusual that one might be very good at one job and then is promoted, and you have no proficiency whatsoever.

Melissa Eisenstat

Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

Alberto Ramos

Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the first half of the year.

John Bond

In the near term, the outlook is encouraging. The world economy continues to grow steadily.

Andrew Harrington

Iran continues to weigh but there is a sense that it's a longer-term situation. I don't see any rash decisions about sanctions, embargoes or cuts in supply.

John Robertson

In a country where about half the population is reportedly threatened with starvation, the increase in inflation would be felt particularly hard as the dollar continues to slide.

John Bonamego

I thought we did a pretty decent job. Those were really good numbers.

Alan Vest

He has been a decent player in the past...but things have not worked out here.

Michael Mann

I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.

John Whisenant

The good thing is they come back in decent shape.

Brittany Cornelius

Everyone's a decent shooter anyway, so the free-throw line is pretty much a given. At the end of practice we're always doing drills to shoot free throws.

Robert Giuffra

There was a profound love for him. He was a very approachable, decent person.

Edmond Goncourt

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Josh Hanson

That's plagued us all year. We have a decent start, but we have a lull in the second quarter.

Nico Kelder

That's a good number. It shows that manufacturing is recovering and it bodes well for the economy that the sector is recording decent rates of growth despite the strong currency.

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.

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.

Laura Conigliaro

HP's fundamental earnings power highlights that this is more than just a restructuring story.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Phil Roth

Investors are going to be surprised when we get a string of stronger economic stats. But we might have to get through earnings season before that happens.

Soichiro Monji

In the past, I think there had been low expectations for Kyocera's electronics parts business, so I think investors had gradually started to view it as one of the losers in the tech sector. In that sense, these earnings are a positive surprise.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Steve Owens

It may be that we simply go from one high-pollution season to another.

Gwyn Howat

It was a wild weather year. The big thing this season was extremes.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Jonathan Lewis

The season is not lost. We're still Virginia Tech.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Patrick Rice

As the season went on, she got better and better.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

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