Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Seale

Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about him was his remarkable consistency. The outside world so often said he was a mystery man, but nothing could be further from the truth. He always made his position clear.

Tom Rodriguez

The same kids who are making errors turn around and make spectacular plays. The other kids don't play consistently either. I can't get consistency from anybody. I don't know if the kids aren't focused or what. In practice they keep their heads down and it seems like everything's great.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

These results reflect an excellent fourth quarter and outstanding year for Compaq . We're very pleased with the consistency of our financial progress, especially with the improvements in earnings and the growth of gross margins to 24.4 percent in the fourth quarter.

Samresh Jung

The shooters just need to work on their consistency in order to get even better.

Stephen Rogers

I've been really streaky this season, which is one problem I think I've had. Some nights I'd have a great game. Some nights I can't make a shot if my life depended on it. Consistency is the main thing I'm working on.

Matt Diaz

I've never had a good Spring Training in the big leagues or Minor Leagues before. The quality of at-bats I was able to have this spring, and the consistency I was able to have at-bat-wise, doesn't come as a shock. But I was very pleased to make the team.

Tom Preissing

This is really what we needed. I'm praying we can get a little more consistency for the last part of the year, get a winning streak going and see what happens.

Raoul Cunningham

This governor made the process more difficult. The next may make it even more difficult. There should be consistency.

John McDonald

That's kind of the fate of this team right now. We always jump out in the first or second inning, and then the consistency isn't there throughout the rest of the innings.

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.

Jack Ablin

Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.

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.

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.

Rick Meckler

It was too much for the market to overcome. Otherwise, it could have been an even better year profit-wise if so much of (companies') earnings weren't deflected into energy costs.

Ann Widdecombe

As far as I'm concerned, William has been an excellent leader. He's a staying leader.

Karen Peterson

People think prices are going to go down and the statistics keep telling us they're not. They need to buy. We have an excellent inventory, excellent interest rates. What are they waiting for?

Brian Leonard

People that really know the game know we have an excellent team.

Michael DeBakey

After reviewing all facts, I am pleased to say that the operation is needed, that it shall provide excellent results,

Jerome Meyer

After five years of excellent financial performance, we are extremely disappointed with these results,

Diane Feinstein

strength, experience, leadership and judgment to be an excellent president.

Gary Larkins

Teams can come in and play two or three games at excellent sites.

Rhys Ifans

I've worked with Hollywood stars, but the reason most of the Hollywood stars I've worked with are Hollywood stars is that they're excellent actors, so I've been very lucky.

Travis Paquet

It was an excellent game. It was 8-8 at the end of the first and 18-14 at the half.

Lazaro Campos

As China's financial sector further opens up and its foreign trade witnesses exponential growth, the need for international financial transaction will naturally skyrocket. And we want to grasp this chance.

William Marshall

As a financial institution we've always prided ourselves in taking part in the community,

Peter Cardillo

Of course, the whole market will be effected, but financial stocks in particular.

Gerald Grinstein

Delta's financial problems are severe, but not insurmountable,

Gerald Grinstein

Delta's financial problems are severe, but by no means insurmountable.

Steve Ballmer

I've been around IBM, and I saw how IBM overdid it. Maybe we will, maybe we won't--but we have strategy control, we have technology control, we've got financial control.

Tom Kruse

A financial adviser's only goal is to get the money back. He is going to say, 'Close Northlake. It's not my problem.

Youssef Squali

Strategically its very important. From a financial perspective, its not enough to move the needle in the short term.

Gary Schatsky

Now more than ever people's financial futures are in their own hands.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Toni Sacconaghi

This is the fourth straight year where your priority is to make money. It's the third where your priority is to grow . You haven't fulfilled those priorities.

Samuel Gruber

This is the fourth home of America's oldest Jewish congregation,

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Oscar Wilde

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

Chuck Hill

The big thing hanging over the market is what kind of growth we're going to see in the second half of the year.

Eivind Reiten

a very important step in our growth strategy.

Mark Gertler

As long as productivity growth maintains its recent pattern, then I think he'll be in a nice position to maintain price stability and robust growth.

Dave Loveland

That's where the majority of the growth is, so it's no surprise.

Roger Altman

Real GDP growth has been relatively healthy, but most Americans don't feel it. It's a transformative time for the U.S. economy.

Sheryl Skolnick

Pricing is okay for the time being, but they're not growth stocks.

Martin Sorrell

Primarily our strategy is organic growth, buttressed by acquisitions.

Judy Bruner

Our third-quarter revenue growth was particularly impressive because this quarter is traditionally our seasonally slowest and has typically been down sequentially from the second quarter.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Ethan McAfee

The stock is going to go up 5 to 10 percent the first day. It's not going to go up 50 percent or more.

Dominic James

I spend 85 percent of my day right here (McGuire Center). I don't get back to my room until 10:30 or 11.

David Fischer

That's where it all starts. I'm 100 percent positive that's where your excelling comes from.

Bob Bowman

You're ruining my life! I'm spending 90 percent of my time at the pool.

Ron Wilson

You wait for somebody like that to mature. He's still not there to my satisfaction defensively 100 percent all of the time, but he's getting closer.

Richard Valdez

You remember 20 percent of what you hear, 75 percent of what you see and 90 percent of what you do.

Bible Bible

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

Anne Robinson

They are always so pleased with themselves aren't they? I've never taken to them. What are they for?

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Bob Wynne

We are very pleased with the Commission's decision.

Steve Burd

We are very pleased with our 2005 results.

Dick Parsons

We are very pleased to have reached an understanding with Mr. Icahn.

Gary Muto

We're very pleased. We wouldn't be rolling out if we weren't pleased with our results.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

John Dunning

We feel like there's a lot of things happening. We've been pleased with what we've seen.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Carlton Forrester

The site is a reflection of society. It's an enter-at-your-own-risk kind of thing.

Joe Gallegos

The score doesn't reflect how well we played.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

Stanley Hauerwas

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Olesya Rulin

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

Cesar Chavez

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

Jane Austen

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Bill Cowher

At this point, it's not about the reflection on what we've accomplished. I'm not into too much reflection. You can do that when the season is over.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

Michael Rady

It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.

Jeff Bower

He's had all the hands-on examinations that he's going to need. The results are all there.

Herbert Simon

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Jennifer Stone

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

William Reinsch

A year from now we're all going to be embarrassed by this.

Wade Taylor

A year ago I thought it was a done deal. I thought we weren't going to have a pool. I'm encouraged.

Trey Blue

I've always been able to score; this year I'm more of a playmaker who can score.

Ted Sim

The motels this year have been really accommodating for us.

Tim Franklin

The most important thing we've been this year is a symbol.

Matt Light

I've said that every year I've been here.

Kim Clijsters

It would make the year even more special,

David Richards

The way I went about it this year has been much better. The conversations we have had have been very good.

Tommy Tuberville

This is not going to be our most experienced year at quarterback,