Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Reiner

As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

James Browning

After a few years we found that these items didn't work. It took a lot of time to deal with them, plus they took up a lot of space. So we put the other stuff aside and migrated back to the book business, something we really felt very comfortable with.

Alan Goldberg

The way to do it right is to take every kid aside one by one and tell them privately what they did well and didn't do well, ... You want to let kids understand that failure is a part of getting better. The big problem is when failure is just presented as failure. That's traumatizing.

Gary Waters

This (game) shows you he's maturing, but at the same time it shows you his leadership. At practice Friday, I pulled Quincy aside and told him, 'You got to lead this team on this floor.' They follow his lead. He responded.

Jim Barker

That's what sets us aside from other places. Young kids don't necessarily want to work hard all the time in the batting cages. They want a place to have fun as well.

Todd Marchant

That's just hockey. That's playoff hockey. A game like this, you bury it. It's like when we'd lose a game and everyone would say we weren't making the playoffs. You put it aside and you go on.

Douglas Altabef

You're really going to need to see some bellwether companies saying the quality of earnings is improving and that it's due to growth, not cost-cutting, before investors are going to be willing to set aside the skepticism.

Zeng Jun

You should not leave your housing loan aside after getting it. Learn to keep track of it every six months, or retain an advisor, such as a mortgage consultant or broker who can help you to do it. You will realize you can save quite a large sum of money throughout your loan tenure.

Joe Jones

You're in this little sphere, it's really cold, and you really have to use the bathroom. But you have to put all that aside and do your job.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

S. Walker

Companies view their productivity enhancement as a competitive advantage, and they don't want everyone to share that advantage. To go into a public marketplace where everyone has the same technology, what's the competitive advantage?

Michael Porter

Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care system.

Kevin Logan

Prices played a big role here. A lot of the increase was due to higher energy prices, particularly for oil.

Tom Maier

Our fall in the last two weeks is due to several injuries and if we hadn't had them we might have fared better. But those are all part of the game.

Peter Cardillo

The selling in financials is an anticipation of lower earnings due to a slower economy, ... From the point of view of interest rates not going up, it's positive.

Charles Corp

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enhance its systems capacity.

Richard Burr

see through the stereotypes, which were made due to a lack of information.

Michelle Clayman

The run-up is probably due to a number of factors.

Mark Smith

It was the technology, and NASA was the attraction. The reason NASA the technology were here, if you want to go one step further, it was due to Wernher von Braun.

Ayman Nour

This is not about winning or losing, but about due process. Whether we got 1 percent or 51 percent, if you feel the process is flawed, we are going to take legal measures.

Dave Hollenbeck

Zach Finley really had a big game for us tonight. It was good to see because he was due for a breakout-type of game.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Barry Hyman

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

Walter Winnitzki

These stocks are pretty much earnings driven. If the earnings come through, I think the stocks are going to move higher and, on balance, I think we are in a healthy environment, which bodes well for stocks in this whole group.

Donald Selkin

The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.

Rolf Elgeti

The valuations are still not a problem, earnings remain strong, M&A is still in the picture, interest rates in Europe are still not a threat, and this should help markets go higher.

John Sacchi

Ryan is starting to realize what it takes to win matches at this level. He keeps on improving every time he steps on the mat.

Tony Hawk

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

Johnny Ensing

Peter is really improving. He's improving his places and that's what I am looking at right now.

Drake Johnstone

If they demonstrate improving revenue growth, they could get $20 a share.

O. J. Simpson

The AXP System automates what was typically an 18-step manual process while improving the recovery rates of the stem cells.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Deepak Chopra

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Douglas William Jerrold

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Don Henley

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

Bo Ryan

As I've been saying all along, they just have to play a little older,

Jalen Rose

I've never said that I wanted to play for another team. I'm not saying that now,

Jason Fraser

It was all determination. As the old saying goes, ?Where there?s a will, there?s a way,? and as you saw, we had the will, literally.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Melissa Kleinman

That's why we're here tonight. (Sexual violence) touches everyone tonight we're taking the first step in saying we are not going to tolerate it.

Fidel Castro

You've put me on three times and I keep saying the same thing.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Philip Vannatter

Are you saying you didn't make that statement?

Mike Harris

Are you saying I lied? I don't lie. It's the truth.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.