Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Bruno

Just recently I got a request for a proclamation in Volusia County for a gentleman that became 80 years old, ... That is not appropriate because you are proclaiming the day because that person is 80 years old. So I sent a letter instead.

Zulima Farber

I think it became a big case only because of the names involved. I think it would have been a routine -- if there is such a thing -- illegal gambling case if it wasn't for the names of those people involved. However, because there was a trooper involved, it was big to us.

Peter Steele

It became more and more difficult after drinking beer, or while drinking beer on stage, to execute vocals in between burps.

Nancy Peterson

It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.

Detective Coody

It became evident to us that he really didn't care about the people he had in the truck with him. He was only concerned about himself.

Joe Sacco

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

Aaron Finch

It became clearer for all of us what kind of program we wanted to be and how we wanted to go about preparing and competing.

Chuck D.

It became a trademark. It's not glued to my head, but I'm very comfortable with it.

John Berry

It became a symbol of accomplishment, style and luxury.

Jackie Kennedy

A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Kurt Barnard

As consumers become more comfortable with buying from the computer, ... and this new generation that has grown up with the computer comes of age, what we will see is huge dollar amounts of retail sales being transacted on the Web and we will see a lot of stores become increasingly Web stores.

Jeffrey Swartz

As a company, Timberland wants to make it better and the new packaging will do just that. Our goal is to reduce our impact on the environment while engaging consumers to take action. This packaging and labeling initiative should make our industry more transparent and give consumers the information they need to make smart buying decisions.

Nestor Aguila

The buying is just too strong for that.

John Hughes

The buying is broad-based, and the movement in some of these stocks is significant, particularly for technology, ... I think we're making some good progress today. It could mean a change in tone.

Keith Murphy

The buying experience for us was outstanding. We placed the order last November, and the press was installed within 30 days. The installation went quicker than we anticipated. It was flawless. We have many pieces of equipment from other manufacturers, and a smooth installation hasn't always been the case with other vendors. We are now tried-and-true Mitsubishi fans.

Steve Baker

Back-to-school tends to be a very different buying season than others -- much more focused on needs than wants. Productivity products are the big sellers because the money is still coming from Mom and Dad.

Donald Yacktman

Back in 1987, the day of the 500-point decline, I started buying like crazy, ... I spent $40 million that day.

F. Stone

I thought the whole world was like Midland College in those 10 years, and when I left I found out the rest of the world wasn't like that at all.

Thad Schultz

I thought she could go in and be a fine college swimmer. Her future is right in front of her.

Kim Butler

I went down there last summer and hung out with her. We have a great relationship, we knew each other a little before college and we did all the freshmen fun stuff together and had a lot of good times.

O. Henry

He was just telling me that he saw the game and he wasn't going to have none of that, it's going back to them old days. We made each other better, going at it every day. I had a little trouble with him in college. He was real physical. He had trouble with me in college because of my size.

Dave Toub

He was great on special teams in college. He made highlight-film hits on a regular basis.

Jim Houston

I have been the luckiest guy in the world, because I had the same deal in high school, college and the pros, ... We won championships every time. With all the success my teams had, I can't complain about anything.

Joe Randa

I didn't get drafted my senior year, ... I got offered a contract by the Brewers for $1,500 from Sal Bando. I decided to go to college instead, and it worked out pretty well.

Fred Hill

He has all the tools you look for in a player. He can run, hit, can throw pretty good, but offensively he's still making an adjustment. He's seeing things he's never seen before and I think the speed of the college game is what's holding him back. But he's a hard worker so those are things he'll pick up quickly.

Richelle Mead

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, "What's that?" "Homework.

W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

R. D. Laing

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Meher Baba

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

Phil Collins

Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

Jonathan Haidt

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

Jacques Chirac

This is a France that wins and is, for once, united in victory, ... symbol of the diversity and of the unity of the country.

Aldo Leopold

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

Donna Brazile

There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Jimmy Vasser

It's just as tough or tougher to win a race here as it has ever been. It's a serious fight because there are a lot of good drivers in the field who have already had successes not only here but in other top series.

Matt Smith

The 'movie drunk' that you see, the guy that's all over the roadway going ten miles an hour ? that?s probably about one percent of all the intoxicated drivers that will actually get arrested.

Felix Sabates

The most important factor was all the drivers are there. To make a hall of fame successful they need drivers to make appearances.

Elliott Sadler

Safety is the No. 1 issue for us. That's something that's come to the forefront, something that the drivers really want to work on. We want to make this sport as safe as we can, and NASCAR is working hand-in-hand with us to make sure we have that.

Lon Anderson

You really have to pay attention, because merging requires two things. It requires your being a good driver, being conscientious, but it also requires the other drivers to work with you.

Aaron Anderson

We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.

Jeff Burton

We have drivers who think it's OK for them to do something, but it's not OK for somebody to do it to them.

Rick Mears

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

Javier Sambrano

The tractor trailer struck the van in the drivers side. Unfortunately the driver was killed on the scene from the impact.

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.

Donald Selkin

The IBM earnings were good, but is this enough to turn things around?. I guess the futures could rally overnight, but as it stands, we're headed toward a lower open.

Chuck Hill

The estimates are for earnings to be down 50 percent in the second quarter, 37 percent in the third quarter, and 12 percent in the fourth.

Brett Gallagher

The majority of earnings have been good, but there have been some misses and the market has reacted violently to them. This is a week that has put me on alert.

Mike Lenhoff

The global outlook is OK, so that suggests that the earnings (growth) will still be there, and as long as they are, people take the view that the wherewithal for dividend growth and share buybacks will be there.

Barry Hyman

The economy is still strong, earnings will be good, and that bodes well for the stock market,

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Eric Davis

We've got to think about everything possible that there is to think about. We have got to turn over every stone, and look into the future to find out what's waiting for us. What can physics do ... where should physics be going?

Craig Patrick

He wasn't playing like he was two years ago, and I didn't see us re-signing him. This was a good opportunity to get a player for the future and someone who can do the job defensively this year and possibly beyond.

William Winwood Reade

And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.

Wernher von Braun

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Robert E. Howard

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Anne Lamott

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

Seth Rogen

When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since.

Erma Bombeck

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

James Earl Jones

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

William Feather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Rickie Fowler

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

Dave Grohl

People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Mike Hammond

I think it's a great opportunity for people to come out and have fun. They're not running a marathon. It's great for people who want to come out and test themselves.

Steve Sanchez

I think it's a great idea for the city.

Julia Voth

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a beautiful country, and they have beer vending machines right on the street. Love that!

Simon Gagne

It's been a long stretch and lots of games, but we pulled it together and got some big wins.

Tony Parker

I've done lots of appearances, none like this.

James Joyce

No, it did lots of other things too.

Denise Dillon

It's lots of work to pack up and go out to eat.

Robert Arnold

At the end, people have lots of complaints,

Tara Reid

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

Jeanette Miller

It's a small town with lots of shops, sort of like Peddler's Village. We thought we'd look around.

Joe Wilcox

There will be lots of new stuff, which I can't talk about right now.