Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Chipper Jones

The bottom of the order didn't do too bad either.

Xavier Malisse

The calls were pretty bad today -- for both of us.

Martin Possienke

The buyback is certainly a positive for the shares, and the profitability target of 20 percent is not bad given that Schering's product portfolio does not have many new drugs with high margins.

Emily Blunt

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

Phil Angelides

The Bush panel's recommendations are a double-barreled blast aimed squarely at California and the middle class, ... These recommendations are good for Texas, but bad for California.

Pat Tarrant

The break was a good thing. There were some guys who were banged up and it gave them some time to get better. It was a good time to have the break. I thought we might have been a little winded. But (the break) wasn't bad for us. I think we're ready to go.

Jim Ritterbusch

The big thing was that products stocks were up at expense of crude. The good news is we're building products supplies; the bad news is crude supplies are back down toward historic low levels.

Sendhil Mullainathan

People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.'

Dionny Reynolds

People call me the monster, the demon, the devil. I'll be all that.

Terry Anderson

People call me a victim of Lebanon, say I lost seven years of my life, ... I didn't lose them -- I lived them.

Wanda Peterson

People call me an overachiever. Any project I take on, I work as if I was a professional.

Taryn Manning

People call me a human jukebox because I know so many songs. Music's always been so huge in my life, just putting the radio on and learning songs.

Robert Boyle

People call a number to report that they're parking on the street.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Mike Elliott

Or it could be by mere chance he got a phone call and decided to leave the area.

Terry Bradway

Officially, I haven't received a phone call from Kansas City, and I'm not expecting one right now.

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Herman Edwards

It would be the first time he didn't show up for one since I've been here. The one thing about Curtis Martin, if he doesn't think he can help the football team, he won't do it. If he thinks he can help the football team then he will play.

Mark Clifford

They are a much better football team this year. Their numbers are up.

Greg Scott

They are a hell of a football team. Why would I want to submit myself to play them twice in the regular season?

Jeremy Bloom

There would be 80,000 people screaming at a football game.

Rob Kittrell

This is a real tough league with a lot of good football teams. We love being in this league. It's a lot of fun to go to some of these smaller towns where football is very important.

Tom Wright

This is a nine-team league that's going to be a 10-team league, and we're going to do everything we can to keep football a success in Ottawa, and that's the sense I get from Bernie.

Scott May

This is a once in a generation type of thing. If you think about it, it's just a tragedy for our nation right now. One thing I see that's really great about it -- football is a sport where it's the same everywhere. I think it just makes us better, really, to have guys from different programs come in.

Andrew Golden

This isn't a football game where there's a winner and a loser. This is a market where we can all do well and support our institutions.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Tom Halbmaier

(A win) will be huge momentum for us going into the midpoint and it would be huge momentum for them, too. At the turn it's all about getting in that top four. Right now we've done a good job to get where we're at, but we're not satisfied.

Rick DiPietro

A win's a win. To see 60 shots and lose wouldn't be a good feeling. I'll take this any day.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes. We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes, ... We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Rich Bonnaure

Baldwin's a really good player. Every time we managed to get it close, he'd come right back with a basket.

Mike Steele

Back when we had good rebounding teams we rarely got to 40 - 40 is a lot of rebounds.

Ridley Scott

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

Shannan Bergen

At home you wanna come out ready to go. You wanna put your opponents down and we did a good job of that.

Chad Oberholtzer

We tried a new lineup tonight, and it looked like that might have been too soon. We switched out and we still couldn't seem to get it together.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Emilia Clarke

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

Andie MacDowell

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

Mike Babcock

We weren't thinking, we were just kind of going, and that was nice to see. We looked like we could move.

Tim Duncan

Unbelievable. It was great. We just stood around and kind of looked at him. He made big shots and got on a roll there.

Horst Koehler

Twenty-five years ago, the world looked to the Gdansk Shipyard where Poles struggled for their rights and freedoms,

George Brett

When you looked at Toronto on paper and us on paper, we had maybe two or three position players who could have made their team,

Lee Evans

To see the way they looked and felt. It trickled down to me, ... To see how important it is to them made me realize as a young player that this is what you need to be going after.

Paul Tracy

The whole thing got messed up when Dominguez crashed,

Walter Jones

Being an offensive lineman, you didn't want to be in the spotlight. When you are in the spotlight, it's usually because you messed up.

Will Smith

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Carroll O'Connor

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Al Franken

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

Bar Refaeli

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

Cory Monteith

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

Dylan Lauren

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

Douglas Adams

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Douglas Adams

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Dorothy Day

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

Christopher Moore

Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

Chuck Martin

There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush.

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.