Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Volpe

Any fee that the county implements, it's passed onto the home buyer. When you tack on fees or you tack on taxes, all that does is raise the price of affordable housing.

Jim Young

A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.

Craig Barrett

The bottom line is that we want images on PCs to become as easy to use and as ubiquitous as text is today. If digital imaging is easy, affordable and fun for consumers, we believe it will spur PC demand and contribute to the ultimate goal of creating new users and new uses for the PC platform.

John Lawrence

As people move to more affordable housing closer to work, it?s simply just a matter of supply and demand. They build more houses in Forsyth County because there is more available land.

Michael Howard

Proof of Concept testing is a critical step in the design and development process, helping to get the design job done right the first time. No vendor can afford to let customers detect problems after the switches and routers are deployed on an enterprise backbone. Neither can manufacturers afford unnecessary delays in going to market.

David Penney

People who have worked hard to pay their mortgage off suddenly to be clobbered with a compulsory purchase order are being offered social housing or shared equity schemes because they can't afford anything else. It's not a just system.

David Wyss

People see energy prices going up and they get a little worried about what they can afford to spend money on.

Tim Lucas

People can afford to be more selective about what they want to view, and many home entertainment systems are now the presentational equal of what you'd get in a movie theater -- and environmentally superior, without the talking neighbors, strangers' cell phones and sticky floors.

Dave Dombrowski

People don't come to your games to see your manager. I can understand why some people will feel that this was based on Alan's popularity here. But really, we could not afford to make this decision based on that, because we need to right this ship.

Dave Starling

Nos. 1-9 in the batting order will move the baseball. Defensively we'll be as solid as we've ever been. Matt can overpower people and keep us in the game with anyone.

Adam Miller

We are hiding him a little bit. It's really not by design. We switched a few things with him in batting practice about a week ago. We moved him up in the box a little. It wasn't that he was struggling. He just couldn't get anything on the barrel.

Bob Woolmer

Bowlers did a great job and I am pleasantly surprised at the capitulation of India's strong batting line-up.

Tom Scarpinato

We didn't play a game this week until (Friday) and we got in a lot of extra batting practice. We're making some good adjustments at the plate and we're using the whole field.

Ken Jr.

You have a commanding lead in home runs -- for the No. 9 spot in the batting order.

Randy Osnes

We had a great practice yesterday. Very intense two hours yesterday, a lot of situational softball. It ended with batting practice and you can just tell that they're figuring some things out.

John Bracewell

We felt they should return to domestic cricket to work on their batting before being reconsidered for selection.

Kiran More

There was a long discussion on middle order batting and we thought that this is the best team we can pick for Pakistan.

Keith Louder

The top six or seven guys in our batting order are really getting the job done. This was a good win.

Ken Banks

As a company, who would you rather lose market share to, yourself or someone else? It is the competitive nature of the business that you watch your competition goes. You either lead or follow, but you always want a share of the market.

Charles Pena

As a company's fortunes fare, so do the CEOs and other top managers, and that is the way it should work in the business world,

Kathleen Hogan

As an ENERGY STAR partner, Marriott has distinguished itself by demanding superior energy performance in their business and seeing real results. Through ENERGY STAR, these Partners of the Year are leading a nationwide effort to protect our environment through improved energy efficiency.

Nikesh Arora

As and when further business models evolve on the mobile devices, we'll deal with that as we go along.

James Packer

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

Carolyn Thomas

As a kid on Saturday night, the streets were full. Now the only business we get is from the (Museum of the Middle Appalachians).

J. Horton

The business we're in is filling our airplanes, and we're going to fill as many of those seats we can.

Mike Moran

The business sector is worse than previously believed. And exports were softer than indicated by initial estimates.

Eric Lascelles

The business sector in Canada continues to grow at a moderate pace.

Fauzi Ichsan

Premature rate cuts could trigger inflationary expectations that could reduce, if not reverse, the capital inflows.

Malcolm Hoenlein

The very fact that this kind of climate can exist in the capital of the United States is unacceptable.

Kenny Tang

The risk of a further slump of Hong Kong stocks is not great, as there is no evidence there are capital outflows in the region. Strong support remains at the mid-February low of 15,241.

Sailesh Jha

The risk is that the baht depreciates because capital flows to Thailand may slow, particularly to the stock market. We're having a problem related to how elections are going to pan out.

Jason Smith

This is not a tax sale. The (financial) river is wide and deep. Morning Star Management continues to do huge capital improvements in these buildings.

Ivan Lathouders

This is of limited impact for KBC. The main thing is that it will free up some capital but in the grand scheme of KBC, it won't be very much.

Keith Bellows

The University of Wisconsin is big, but there's a small-town feel here in the state's capital (you can't get away from the cheese, but you can go ice fishing on any winter's day),

Lon Carter

This early in the year that's phenomenal. I mean that is really quite amazing. Another highlight of the day for us ... I can't remember when Capital has won all three throwing events in a track meet. And I've been coaching a long time.

Ed Rohling

Alex's extensive experience in the investment industry and capital markets further strengthens the diversity of our board.

Membathisi Mdladlana

Once there's equity in the workplace, the law will become redundant.

Terence Winter

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

Barbara Steinmetz

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

John Schwartz

We can use the fund equity to get us through the next year. It's stable so we're able to do that.

Hans Johnson

I thought what we would find was that it was only people who had equity or very high incomes who were getting into the market. But that's simply not true.

Tom Roseen

People are saying, 'Okay, I'm ready to go play in the equity markets again.

Sandy Baum

The question for parents is: Is it better to take out a PLUS loan or is it better to take out a home equity loan? They need to look at all their options.

Warren Buffett

Today's equity prices presage only modest returns for investors,

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Andy Dennings

Offensively he's hitting toward his strengths. He's not pulling every pitch. He's doing his job.

Alison Lacey

Norwalk just kept hitting big shots, and we needed to realize that and get out on them and we didn't. It was frustrating to see their shots keep going in. We tried to get on them, and they just kept hitting.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Brian Randle

Dee's a big-time player. He hits big-time shots.

Dan Castellaneta

And there's nothing wrong with hitting someone when his back is turned.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Dan Shoemaker

Anything it hits that's cold, it's going to stick to it.

Steven Smith

The shots they were hitting was like getting hit in the stomach.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Timm Bechter

There could be a lot less spending. Most of the network build-out for larger telecom players is already done,

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Adam McKay

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Jim Norman

Do you know how much money that saves people?

Tim Ghriskey

Delphi is weighing on the whole automotive industry. More people want to move money out of that sector, and the situation is not going to get better any time soon.

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

DeEtta Culbertson

The state doesn't provide any money to private schools. They're deemed private businesses, private entities.

James Bland

The taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for a low-performing job. I would like to see that money go to the teachers.

Raghu Sharma

The taxpayers money is being spent on them.

Bob Hartwig

The third option is the better use of money in the long run.

Mike Pearson

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Tyra Banks

I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.

David Patterson

I've been smoking since I was 16 and I'm 43, so it's time to give it up.

John Sutton

I've been watching him pretty much since he got into first grade.

Rod Smith

I've been wanting to do this since I was 10 years old,

Rudy Gay

I've been thinking about that ever since it happened.

Mike Crum

I've been top 10 since I was 16. It's kind of all I know, since I've been doing it so long.

Lori White

I've been a ventriloquist since I was 10.

Claude Williams

I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.

John Jones

We're going to try to use solid technique.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Suzy Bogguss

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

Ray LaHood

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

Ruta Sepetys

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Tiger Woods

I started changing my swing in late 1999.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

Pat Metheny

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.

Jay Bryson

Obviously, this quarterly swing is a one-off event.

Mike Trapasso

He's got to swing better than he's swinging, that's for sure.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.