Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Pemberton

Going to meet with Billy really brings home the fact that Tae Bo and what it all means is taking control of your life. It's not about being size two or getting into a bikini. Seeing Billy amplified the fact that Tae Bo is a lifestyle more than just an exercise class.

Elliott Sadler

In our position, you just can't mess up. (The pressure is) just amplified a little bit. But that's part of racing. For my team, the word points is not even going to come out of our mouths when we get to California. We're going there to win the race because we had so much fun there last year in victory lane.

David Epstein

In 1994, the testing was done directly on the sample, and if the stain was degraded or too small, you got insufficient results. Now, it's amplified by making copies of the target DNA. So the labs can work with smaller samples or partially degraded samples.

Agbeli Ameko

A lot of funds are short natural gas so they amplified the downside move. Then, the bounce was on some short covering -- classic speculative volatility.

Tyler Oakley

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed.

Edward Yingling

Our concerns about mixing banking and commerce didn't begin with the Wal-Mart application; they were just amplified by it. The industrial loan charter represents a back door through which commercial firms are entering the banking business.

William Geist

The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.

Lord Browne

The recent hurricanes in the U.S. have impacted our results. However, underlying performance is strong, amplified by high but volatile prices of oil, gas and products, ... We anticipate production from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to be back to normal, with the exception of the Shell-operated Mars project, by the end of the year.

Kevin McCloud

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

Richard Bove

I think it's clear that the banks that are more tied to the retail sector are going to have a much tougher quarter compared to those with diversified positions. The banks in the retail sector have to deal with interest rate compression, loan volume will be tougher, and they don't have the trading or investment banking that are hot now.

Vincent Farrell

I think the basic fundamental underpinnings are very sound. The banking system's sound, there's no near-term crisis to be had. It doesn't mean the stock market's not overextended - which I believe it is and is due for some sort of setback. But I don't think it's 1987 all over again.

Philipp Meyer

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

Andy Collins

I think that the smaller banks are probably going to have more difficulties in the upcoming six-to-12 months simply because they have relied on loan growth to drive EPS growth to meet consensus expectations. And loan growth is not where you want to be. Bread-and-butter banking is not that great of a business. And you're also the ends in terms of margin pressure. The Fed has raised rates 175 basis points, which usually translates into a much more difficult margin environment. And I think that that is going to hurt the bank below the top 15 in market cap for the near term. I would say the larger-cap banks, once they get over the capital markets issues they're experiencing over the second quarter, should see a little bit more strength.

Tom Finucane

I'd like to think that this is a bottoming out and people are starting to see the value that a lot of these banking stocks offer. I'd like to think there's some bottoming out and strength, but in general the market is nervous.

Andy Penman

Retail banking remains a concern, as does unsecured lending. However, with bid speculation helping the valuation, this should provide support for the share price.

Adam Dener

Retail banking is a distribution game. The models for best practices in distribution are companies like Wal-Mart and the niche retailers.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Wataru Kasatani

Investors already learned about the recovery in Japan's banking industry and the Mizuho sale gives them another investment opportunity.

Detective Lopez

Kenyon Martin is sitting on the bench when a fan begins to heckle him. Martin stands up, turns around and addresses the fan. Then he sits back down.

Swami Sivananda

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Diane Phillips

Just like a Super Bowl football team, you need a game plan to pull off a successful party. That plan begins with the decision to throw a party and doesn't end until you return the last rented or borrowed item.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Caroline Williams

I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good job of hitting the open person, whether it was me or Tina. We were all just seeing each other really well and running the floor.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Will Durant

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the world.

Mark Owens

It begins with the growing realization that another ? the mother ? has it, she has control over it, and she's not you.

Bud Schmidt

I think the language to open it up to 'him' or 'her' language is important to do to keep the charter up to date.

David Ernst

We think that it's time for a moratorium on new charter schools so that we have an opportunity to take stock to see how those charter schools that have been in existence fare.

John Moody

In 1862, when the charter was granted by the United States Government for the construction of a railroad from Omaha to the Pacific coast, the only States west of the Mississippi Valley in which any railroad construction of importance existed were Iowa and Missouri.

Chris Reid

In Paradise, that's one of the nice things about how charters operate, ... We're very much connected with the district. And we pay for those administrative services, so it keeps us connected.

John Bolton

I'm confident that the Security Council under the charter has a responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.

Brian Steen

It's redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains saving this land has been our charter for over 100 years.

Kurt Spitzer

It's hard to make generalizations about what a charter does because you don't know until you see it in writing.

Phil Andrews

It's parents who most commonly start charter schools. So the community gets to decide what kind of school will most meet the neighborhood's needs.

Rick Smith

The NFL foots part of the tab, you end up spending a lot more, ... Essentially you move your whole franchise to the game site - computers, personnel, everything. We'll probably end up with three charter flights to and from here.

Gary Hirshberg

The force of commerce got us in this mess and its the only force that will get us out,

Salar Kamangar

Nothing that we are doing is at all focused on commerce or classifieds, ... We don't know what to expect. It may very well be data types that we didn't anticipate.

Wang Yi

The long-awaited rules are likely to be issued in a month, when the Ministry of Commerce has made some slight amendments.

Tom Courtney

This is actually a really big deal because in Amazon's earnings, about $24 million in gross profit comes from the commerce network,

Jon Oltsik

This is the year that Linux gains critical mass. It'll be very important in big Internet commerce sites.

Patricia Clark

We have seen a move on the part of the (Illinois Commerce Commission) and the state and the utilities to try to introduce competition into these industries, and for various reasons it hasn't really worked for any of them.

Mark Jarvis

We're really at the start of the Internet commerce curve. It's a market we think we will dominate as we go forward. As more people use the Web, more people will be driven to our database.

Michael Rowe

As far as Winchester is concerned, it creates a focal point for commerce and other activities.

Henri Pirenne

The Western Mediterranean, having become a Musulman lake, was no longer the thoroughfare of commerce and of thought which it had always been.

Michael Geoghegan

It can be anything from corporate commercial stuff to somebody sharing their most personal thoughts.

Seth Shostak

NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Leif Johansson

There is a growing interest in the market to reduce fuel consumption. We now have a technology that is interesting from a commercial viewpoint . . . for a hybrid market for heavy vehicles.

John DeVilbiss

There is no good explanation. It's uncharacteristic with a driver with a commercial driver's license. Information like this, it's unfathomable.

Lee Brumbaugh

Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered urban industrial documentary. It foreshadows Walker Evans's documentary work of the 1930s.

Edmund Burke

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

David Williamson

We have tied up the Biosphere and we're talking about doing a master-planned community and commercial property. We're going to do a high-end community.

Kevin McCabe

Part of it is to do with commercial reasons, trying to get further revenue generated from China.

Kurt Braunohler

I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commercial purposes, I think you should give someone a dividend. They make money, then you make money. It should be an investment, whereas I think Kickstarter's true purpose is raising money for things that are in and of themselves justifying.

Hiroichi Nishi

Key U.S. monthly jobs data, due later in the day, a three-day weekend and concerns that the Tokyo market has gone too far too fast are expected to encourage investors to take profits.

Greg Aiello

He wants to share with them his perspective on what has happened and where they go from here. He wants to have a dialogue with them and hear their concerns and suggestions about how things can be better next year.

Michelle Clayman

There are still concerns that profits will slow considerably, and that will hit stocks. But I think there are a number of stocks that are just oversold at these levels.

Adeel Iqbal

It concerns me. It concerns a lot of people, especially those who have been here for years and years.

Alan Smith

I think the pursuit of this was overly aggressive, and this reeks of a personal vendetta to me on the part of the homeowners' association. It goes back to concerns Karen had with respect to school zoning issues.

Addison Armstrong

I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to continue to outweigh the fundamentals.

Patti Smith

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

Chris Powell

I don't have any more concerns about it this year than I've had in the past. Obviously, we're always on the lookout for any little glitches. I'm confident everything will be as good as it's been for the past few years.

Sean Penn

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

Ken Hill

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Chris Chute

keeps all doors open as long as possible until the real opportunities start to shape themselves.

Kevin Sigana

He lived with them for a while, and I guess it was a mother-type relationship. Whenever he wanted, he could come and stay. It was an open door for him.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan opened the door to 50-basis-point rate hikes,

John Challenger

Going through the front door is a lot better than e-mailing your resume and waiting for them to call.

Tim Walsh

His parents always opened their doors to us.

Jose Barroso

Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, the European Union has opened its door to Turkey,

Jerome Meyer

To get 3,000 students through two doors in 15 minutes is an impossibility, ... The University can figure out that you can open more doors. It doesn't take much to do it.

Mike Ryan

I think what the Fed really did today is they kept the door open for further cuts.

Matt Kolojejchick

We've been waiting for this all year. It was one of our goals entering the season, to perform well at districts. Now we have one more day and then we look forward to states.

Chris Como

We're only entering 12 kids this year. But all 12 have a legitimate shot of qualifying.

J. Lewis

Last year, I think we were too confident. We were 23-1 entering the tournament and we just thought we were unbeatable. We know every team is equal, and we have to come out and play each team as if they are the toughest in the state.

James Buchanan

If you arre as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Sergio Mattarella

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

Geoff Johns

Everyone knows Aquaman, probably from all the animation he's been in over the years from the '70s and the '80s, entering him into the pop culture.

Martin Buber

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

Paul Stoddart

It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.

John Wright

I think we could use it for industrial purposes or educational purposes,

Don Drummond

Industrial policy too often amounts to taxing the winners to subsidize the losers.

Diane Swonk

The retail sales and industrial production numbers could be better than people expect.

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

Lori Price

They'll be right in my back yard. If we don't get (the development) stopped, are we going to live in an industrial park?

Robert DiClemente

At each such turning point since 1960, industrial production has risen notably over the succeeding 12 months. This period is unlikely to be an exception.

Washburn

This is their boom. This is their Industrial Revolution,

John Larson

It was a very important crossing, and it was very important to that industrial area.

Phil Hardberger

sophisticated things that the industry really needs, and that we don't have. We're not an industrial town, we haven't done much of that sort of thing. We don't have enough people that know how to do those things, and consequently we are losing jobs and subsequently we're losing business.

Wislawa Szymborska

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

Scott Hoyt

It just suggests that consumers, particularly lower-end consumers, are going to be more stretched when these loans reset, with potentially negative implications for spending growth.

Lynn Lawrance

They might be able to make payments for you in the short run. Summarize the terms in writing so there won't be any misunderstanding down the road whether this was a loan or a gift.

Alan Curbishley

For a variety of reasons they haven't been playing regularly so it's time to see if they can get a loan move and get back in the swing of things.

Mark Cuban

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Jerry Thompson

We would put a deposit in to secure the loan. To me, that takes us out of the loan business.

Joe Morford

The bottom-line (earning-per-share) number was a little better than expected, but some of the underlying trends showed some softness, particularly the loan and deposit growth.

Jean Chatzky

I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

Donald Trump

I started with a $1 million loan. I agree with that. It's a $1 million loan. But I built a phenomenal company.

Jeff Carter

He was mixing well tonight. He has an idea of what he wants to do out there and he does it.

Adam Timmerman

It helps, just the mixing it up. It's nice when we're pushing them back and running the ball.

Stanley Schulman

It was just a wonderful mixing of elements.

Mary Hart

I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.

Lasse Hallstrom

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Hiroyuki Sanada

This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a new history.

Blake Michael

I've always had a fascination about mixing music,

Blake Michael

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Dennis Driscoll

Those three have been setting the pace, and others are mixing in and out.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.