Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Gordon

I think the public has always been fascinated by crime. Crime in American fiction dates from the 20s, 30s and 40s in potboiler novels and film noir, not to mention tabloid journalism. In the past few years, TV just figured out a way to capitalize on that in a different manner.

Tracey Morrill

I thought we played a good game. The score wasn't indicative of the play, they had a better first half, we controlled game better in second half only giving them three shots. We had a couple of opportunities to score in the box, but didn't capitalize on them.

Oscar Goodman

I think we're at the crossroads -- whether we want to be the entertainment capital of the world or a great American city. Our economy is good. Things are so wonderful in Las Vegas and it's time to move to the next level.

George Mirabal

I think all three cities tied in the design, the concept and the capital that was needed. I think it was the way in which the capital was structured that made the difference.

David Trone

It gives them a way to get in the game without having to put capital at risk.

Mark Bloomfield

I think that a capital gains tax cut is very, very doable this year. The only question is not will there be a capital gains tax, but what will it look like.

Parris Glendening

It is imperative that I, as well as our citizens, have complete confidence that the legal process involved in capital cases is fair and impartial,

David Livingstone

I don't expect Albertson's to make any capital improvements in the division.

Barack Obama

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Bill Xia

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

David Sze

I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

David Lowe

There is no difficulty with that concept, but not all companies have received the same level of profit.

David Kaslow

We try to pick companies that dominate their niche. So we think there are lots of opportunities to sort of identify pure plays,

David Brady

We try to invest in companies that kids can easily understand and our educational material is targeted to about the 6th grade level. It's all in the presentation I think.

John Bennett

He needs to feel like he can still drive, and I think it's pretty important to him not to be dependent on someone to drive him around all the time.

Jim Paine

I?m not totally dependent on the BlackBerry. I still do heavy e-mail work at night from a laptop.

Dan Lipinski

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Bruce Silverglade

The guidelines are dependent on enforcement, which makes them inherently weak.

Rex Norman

This is a forest ecosystem that has lived with very frequent fire. The ecosystem here has developed and is dependent on that. There is no ecosystem replacement for it.

Reghan Cloudman

It's all dependent on the weather. It can happen at any time of the year, and we're just realizing that now.

Ross Stolzenberg

Everyone should be responsible for his or her own health, but I think what this survey shows is how much more dependent husbands are on their wives than wives are on their husbands (when it comes to) health issues. This difference is pretty well established in gender roles.

Jane Rissler

With genetic engineering and even with traditional breeding, it's important that farmers don't become dependent on just a few varieties of a crop, but instead try to preserve diversity.

Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Ned Colletti

His skills are very similar to earlier in his career. He knows how to play, how to win.

Scotty George

I think the market today is just perpetuating the uncertainty we've seen in the last few weeks after it hit its highs earlier in the month.

James Daly

I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.

Luca Colajanni

It had been raining a lot earlier and the track was very wet. He just spun off.

Michael Goodling

We lost to them 2-1 earlier this season, so we know we can play with them. Hopefully we'll rise up and meet the challenge.

Jimmy Spencer

I didn't give, ... Yeah I could have, but hey man it's the last lap. Sometimes earlier in the race you'd roll out of the gas and step on the brake and let him have the lane, but I had the lane and he wanted it and not on the last lap.

Dan DeRose

He is a very strong kid. They probably should have went to him a little earlier maybe in the first half.

Teresa Kerry

John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country,

Winston Churchill

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts

Robert Gottlieb

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Tom Greene

I'm pretty happy to still be playing. And we earned the right to be there because of the 18 games in the league season.

Tom Megyesi

This is a good reward for all of their hard work and putting up with me in practice. The running, all of the stuff that they do in and out of practice, they earned this win.

Chris Neitzel

That's the first earned run we've given up this year.

Alex Pareene

Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits.

John Bunting

They won the job, earned the position through their play in training camp.

Scott Mitchell

It makes it hard to make the playoffs. But if you make it in this district, you know you earned it.

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.

Peter Deutsch

Investigating what's happened in the equity markets is not a waste of time, but spending 90 percent of our resources on Martha Stewart is not an appropriate allocation of resources.

Richard Bernstein

If you're in the equity market, you want to focus on the largest cap, highest quality companies,

Membathisi Mdladlana

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

Lauren Fine

The supposedly lack of participation by private equity firms also does not send a good signal, in our view.

Edmond Chan

These results were contributed by the return of investors' interests on the equity market towards the end of 2005, and fund raising by large state-owned enterprises.

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.

Marshall Wittmann

Clearly, they have to make gains in 2006, or it's possible there will be a contest.

Chuck Robinson

I'm just not sure it gains us anything,

Art Hogan

The larger trend remains to the upside, but its hard to say whether we'll see gains in the short-term,

John Christopher

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

Michael Fay

All that poverty alleviation means is an increase in exploitation of the resources, and it provides short-term and relatively superficial gains for people in Africa,

Ryohei Muramatsu

The dollar's gains today were capped around the recent peak level of 119.39 yen, because this level is also a key resistance level on charts.

David Mozina

The dollar's gains are pretty much broad-based, with losses being led by the euro.

Oriana Fallaci

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Paul Nolte

Stocks have had a real tough time maintaining gains this whole week. When we start taking a look around, gains tend to evaporate. Today, investors are looking at tech leaders. Those stocks are where the weight is being carried.

Floyd Hall

Kmart's sales for the month were on plan and we are pleased with our progress in a number of key businesses.

Mike Stebila

I thought that was the key to the game. We wanted to take Deckard out of the game.

Reza Aslan

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

Vince Young

Preparation is the biggest key right now.

Robert Orben

Individuality' is the key to success.

Sarah Dessen

There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.

Rohan Bopanna

Discipline has been a key factor to my success.

Wil Wheaton

I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused,

Ronald Reagan

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Fred Carter

I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public school student-athletes,

Joel Kotkin

My theory is Americans are villagers, basically. We want the private space, the single-family house. But we want also the public space.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Linus Torvalds

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.