Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Wagoner

Any time GM and UAW has something going on, we're all curious about how that may affect us,

Fadela Chaib

An outbreak of cholera, affecting probably several hundreds of people, is occurring,

O. Singh

As far as I know, the hotel project at Providence, close to the stadium, has enough cement in supply at the site. The shortage is basically affecting the small man rather than big companies.

Todd France

As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys differently over the years and you cannot predict the future. ... Bottom line, we have always wanted to get this deal done ASAP and Ronnie has been working out very hard everyday.

Chris Warren

As far as contests go, this is the last big event of the season. It's affects us greatly. Normally, we don't get as much walk-in traffic.

Eddie Jones

As a team the increased fuel costs, naturally, affect your budget. Figure this: the transporter that we run gets about 6 1/2 to 7 miles per gallon at best, 4 1/2 at worst. Obviously, the increased fuel cost makes a considerable difference, especially with all of these trips we're making to the West Coast now.

Mark Billingham

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

Brian Mitchell

As a place of some resources we had a responsibility to reach out to those who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Dean Duerst

As a group, I don't think it was our best effort. It is always tough to tie. It was a very exciting game and both teams could have won it. Our first-half performance was a level down and it affected the outcome of the game. We need to learn from that. We definitely came back in the second half and played with a lot more energy. It was a great battle.

Ron Perry

Authorities are worried. Our fire conditions, as far as the grasses and the brush, in all of Texas except for the coast are in extreme fire danger.

John Rogers

Coast to coast, consumers are embracing Pay By Touch. Hands down, paying by touch is the simplest way to pay and is making consumers' lives easier everyday.

Jim Knight

Depending on the day, we'll have shipyard reps, vendors, engineers and the Coast Guard,

Joe Bastardi

The Texas coast is in for a long period of tropical activity.

Jase Robertson

I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

Brad Davis

Some people may feel that we are stating the obvious and some people may not. We want to encourage people to move away from the coast rather than towards it.

Richard Curtin

Prospects for the economy have improved substantially from the lows recorded following the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the surge in gas prices. Firms still expect a slower overall pace of economic growth during 2006 than in 2005. The expected growth slowdown is mainly due to anticipated increases in interest rates. Firms are much more optimistic about their own prospects in 2006, as they expected strong growth in revenues and profits.

Steve Pennington

I've noticed tournaments up and down the coast are all down because people are doing other things on weekends, like fixing their houses.

Craig Fugate

It would be like a weed whacker going up the coast

Chester Nimitz

A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder

Susanna Kearsley

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.

David Walker

As a matter of course we review our cost structure and staffing needs and levels.

Jonathan Anderson

The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ... Wages and costs are going up in China. The economy is already past its peak. This is no longer the easy money you had in 2002 and 2003.

David Marshall

Barge shipping costs have exploded. Right now, barge freight has traded at a record high, from the Ohio (River) to New Orleans.

Thomas Jefferson

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jennifer Davis

Prices are high. I hate to see it when a shipment comes in and I see what it's going to cost a student because you look at it and think, how can it be that much?

Ron Kenedi

Prices are going down every year, and the cost of standard electricity is going up. There will be a meeting point.

Don Pether

Profitability was negatively impacted by significantly higher costs for purchased slabs, raw materials and energy and a significant drop in market pricing.

Stacy Palmer

People are very frustrated when they see the slowness of the response (to the hurricane). People figure they can give a gift very quickly. The slowness of the response is part of what triggered this outpouring of donations.

Julie Morgenstern

People figure they'll get to the personal stuff as soon as the work is finished,

Pat Pownall

Officiating is a lot like being married. You tend to have selective hearing after a while. The toughest part to figure out is when to respond. When does (a coach) have a question, or when is he talking to be talking?

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Paul Spear

Any person with a little math sense can make up their mind as to how big this was. You look at the opponents we have left and the schedule we have left and you can figure out that obviously with a minute and a half left, we needed a goal.

Phil Condit

And then you go to the main systems integrator -- us -- and you say, 'go figure out how to do this.'

Jeff Byrd

The spring race, we have a 99-percent renewal rate on tickets, ... For this race, it's 99.6 percent, which proves that 0.4 percent of the people don't renew their tickets to Bristol. We figure those are the ones that died.

Scott McNealy

The technology industry is consolidating. People are trying to figure out who the winners are and who the losers are.

Syamsir Siregar

The terrorists want to get money by kidnapping influential figures and this could include businessmen and politicians.

Jan Schakowsky

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Steve Stuhmer

Consistently, what they are trying to do is take my customers, and they are using the fuel to do it.

Jenson Button

We just have to wait and see tomorrow. We are reasonably happy that we have solved some our issues but maybe the others are running very big fuel loads. Tomorrow is the important day.

James Holden

This year is shaping up for another record year of sales, and it comes as we are embarking on an unprecedented wave of new product introductions and partnerships that will fuel our growth into 2000 and beyond,

Checky Herrington

The reason it's going up is because of the fuel adjustment.

Philip Baggaley

Those three factors, pension, labor and fuel prices, will likely be the major consideration as they come up to Oct. 17.

Philip Baggaley

Those three factors, pension, labor and fuel prices, likely were the major considerations.

Joan Bonvicini

This team is like a gas tank and we used all of our fuel on Thursday's game. I think we were all emotionally, mentally and physically tired.

Todd Perkins

What was $1.99 a gallon is now $2.70-something a gallon.

James Cordier

Gasoline at $2.50 a gallon isn't going to keep people from going on their spring and summer vacations.

Rose Rougeau

What I'm hearing is that more and more we are topping the $3 a gallon mark in Texas.

Shepard Fairey

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter.

Kristin Gore

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

Tim Federle

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Teddy Pendergrass

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Robert Hoffman

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Chris Spillane

Every time he steps onto the ice, he gets the job done. He doesn't get a lot of ice time, but every time he does, he does a super job.

Jim Walden

Well, I don't know what they do on the west side of the state, but over here whenever it gets dark, we just turn on our lights.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Dr. Shannon

These are two very, very important milestones as we progress.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

Bill Sadler

Don't think of it as 60 miles a day.

Greg Edwards

Every 100 miles you go, you've got a new arena, ... Everybody's got one.

Kenneth Blackwell

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Thomas Haden Church

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Mark Calcavecchia

Obviously, money is not an issue. They don't need the money, which is nice to be in that position. But it's just golf, you know? It's not a marathon. It's not the Ironman out here, swim 26 miles or something. It's just golf. Take next month off.

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.

Bill Young

As a rush-drop linebacker, he's kind of the perfect fit.

Mike Bellotti

Awesome. Simply awesome. I don't know if they are a perfect team, but they come close.

Frank Barnaby

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

Jai Courtney

Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.

Naylond Hayes

Dennis is averaging about 6 or 7 points per game, but he can shoot it.

Brad Soderberg

Anthony's a gambler. Sometimes the play works. It's not a perfect science.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Kevin Millwood

No, run support is not going to be a problem.

John Woo

I usually put the actors and the stuntmen in a real explosion, in real gunfire. They run scared, really scared,

Sergio Kindle

Some schools want me as linebacker and some want me to play running back. I'll play wherever they put me.

Justin Blalock

Something's got to give. We feel like we can run whenever we want.

Rosevelt Colvin

Once you stop the run you get teams in third-and-long, you can tee off because you know the quarterback is going to be back there.

Tristan Davis

Sometimes when I see a running back, I'm like, that could have been my touchdown.

Marcus Williams

See, he is the one running, not me.

Gerald Henderson

As a team we understand we can get so many buckets at the rim. We've been working on that, trying to get better at it in games.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

Stephen Bell

West Chester has a lot going for it.

Steven Wright

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

Steven T. Katz

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

Soulja Boy

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

Stephen Hawking

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

Shahrukh Khan

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

Mark Steyn

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Patrick Quinn

Right now it's still kind of a Wild West out there, how this is being done.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.