Famous Quotes & Sayings

Loren Hill

Dell has been positively impacting the High Point and Piedmont Triad economy ever since the site was announced last December,

Marc Falcone

Despite the phenomenal growth of Las Vegas, the construction talent pool is not deep enough to provide the needed labor to build all currently announced projects. We believe if all announced and anticipated projects were to proceed before the end of the decade, a significant portion would not get off the ground given the limited depth of the construction talent pool, most importantly subcontractors.

Warren Buffett

Despite the lack of precedent, a negative coupon security seemed possible in the present interest rate environment ... I asked Goldman Sachs to create such an instrument and they responded promptly with the innovative security being announced today.

Ernie Goss

Despite the announced closure of the two Tyson plants, Nebraska's confidence index stood at a regional high of 70.2. Certainly, the rising fortunes of the state's ethanol and renewable energy industry have buoyed businesses in this industry or firms with close ties to this industry.

Marc Koska

A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.

Deborah Silverman

Any marketing program that we would offer would be consistent with the marketing strategy we announced on Jan. 10.

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

John Dludlu

A replacement will be announced in due course. The ship is in good shape and she feels she needs a change.

Jim Curran

I've been a fan forever. My brother lives here, so when the bowl was announced I said, 'God is telling me to go to Phoenix.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Ernie Goss

As in much of the region, weather played an important role in pushing the state's index higher. Businesses in South Dakota reported undertaking and completing construction projects for the month that would ordinarily have been sidelined until spring.

Jane Johnson

Our customers down there are seeing their businesses expand and our opportunities are growing in the region.

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

Mayor Amabile

The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.

Richard Fuld

Sandy's unsurpassed experience working with governments, industries, and businesses worldwide clearly makes him an ideal choice to help us further expand the Lehman Brothers' footprint in the global marketplace,

Howard Davidowitz

SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.

Frank Skaggs

SBA can help these small businesses overcome their economic injuries by offering these working capital loans, but the help cannot start until they apply.

Bill Owens

As a big fan, I told him something needed to be done, ... He said they were close to reaching an agreement.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Pat Lynch

As a fan, I want to read a lot into it. But being on the inside of negotiations and knowing their (Super Bowl) theme, I can't read a lot into it. They originally wanted to have it at Hollywood and Highland, but they couldn't get the permits to close the streets as long as they needed.

Jose Fernandez

The big thing about her is that she has a tremendous work ethic. If you look at her stats her freshman year, you can see how much her game has evolved and improved. She's worked on her range. It really shows how committed she has been to improve on her game. She's not even close to her potential. She's a really good shooter. She uses screens well, but she needs to improve her perimeter passing.

George Gregan

The big standout with the 2005 team is they're able to close out games under pressure. They held their composure and their nerve and turned what was a tight test match in their favour,

Scott Worley

A threat to close the industry would have more of an effect than people would imagine.

Mark Rosenbaum

As it stands now, close to 8 million voters could be at the mercy of these faulty, unreliable and decertified machines. Californians deserve to go to the polls knowing that their vote will be counted, not discarded.

Don MacAdam

As I told the league, I respect their opinion, but we've got an injured player who's already missed three games and he's likely going to miss six. The punishment is not remotely close to what it should be.

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Leonard Johnson

Oh God, I thank God I could see him, I had some closure too, I got to say goodbye.

Mack Brown

There are a lot of rewards for winning, and one that you dream about is to get a National Championship ring. They've had trips to the White House, some have been on Oprah and the celebration was wonderful, but this pretty much puts closure to last year's team.

Aziz Ahmad

As the situation has changed, we have been taking gradual steps towards the closure of the missions and submissions,

Richard Ragan

We're very much sort of in a closure mode on the humanitarian side.

Marguerite Cotto

We tend to think of program closure as a last resort.

H. Hart

She was the last person pulled out of the lake. It gives us some closure to something that was a very tragic thing to go through.

Tangee Overly

My family really needs closure in this. We need this to be over.

Pat Roberts

Now we have this ... stunt 24 hours after their staff was informed that we were moving to closure next week, ... If that's not politics, I'm not standing here.

Leane Ross

She never knew. That's why the closure is so important. She never got over it.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Alison Ojeda

As long as we have confidence going into our matches, we have a great shot at winning some of those big contests. We plan on doing some things that have never been done at MTSU in women's tennis.

Dean Eberling

As long as they stay in that logical band, investor confidence should remain high.

Justin Gage

As long as he keeps playing with (the swagger) and keeps his head up and plays with confidence, we'll go a long way.

Joey Cabret

As long as my confidence stays up, we should do great. This is our year.

Jack Layton

As it stands at the moment, if there's a motion of non-confidence on the table in the House, we will not be supporting or indicating confidence in the government.

Hassan Adams

That was a big one, man. We know how good we are. It's just us going out there playing. We went out, played our game and had fun doing it. It's a confidence thing.

Kris Vancas

That was a big hit because that run there in the first inning gave us a lot of confidence.

E. O. Wilson

reaffirms my confidence in the criminal justice system.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Kenny Tang

Profit-taking dragged the index lower. But funds are still in Hong Kong and are helping support the index despite the pressure on stocks to trade lower after the weak showing of overseas markets.

Al Goldman

Our economy is doing well despite what is going on in Asia, and with any signs of improvement from there, it could be up, up and away for us.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

Alberto Ramos

Despite the recent pickup, total investment spending in the economy is still lower than the level of 2001 and, as a share of GDP...below the 1997-2000 average.

Maurice Cheeks

Our energy got us back in the game. But you've got to play perfect when you get down 28 points or so.

Max Schneider

People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'

Samir Haj

Defensively we tried to hold off in the first half because we felt we had enough energy in the second half be able to make good possessions and try to attack. That's exactly what happened.

Mark Bartelstein

Antoine is thrilled. This was a grueling process trying to put a sign-and-trade together. This took a lot of time and work and energy from a lot of people.

Barry Hyman

A rebound in energy (prices) could be one of the excuses for a mid-December trading peak (in stocks).

Richard Falkenrath

A port is where chemical, energy and oil facilities all come together with a large number of people, with quite limited security on the water.

Clark Chapman

The seniors have never made the states. You could tell that their energy was real high.

Bill Richardson

The strategic petroleum reserve is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day. This is a price problem. We don't want to manipulate energy markets.

Anthony Chan

The significant number of headwinds such as rising energy prices and the prospects of rising short-term rates are taking their toll on the economy,

Daniel Yergin

It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.

Dennis Johnson

If you think ethanol production is important, I guess this would be important. It's not massive enough to really make very much difference, but it ought not be sneezed at either.

Robert Buchanan

Clearly, Wal-Mart's fortunes over the next 12 to 18 months hinge on the quality of the job that Eduardo Castro- Wright does. He is the man on the hot seat.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Steve Ballmer

We are still not getting in the manufacturing industry, ... We will provide the infrastructure that lets those in the manufacturing industry do their jobs.

Lloyd Doggett

What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

Thomas Hoffman

Every time we have an accident, or have something particularly like Sago, we're back to people thinking we're the same old industry we were back in the '60s.

William Wood

But we?re talking about the same numbers. The oil industry is volatile. It?s very profitable some years and not so profitable others.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Bob Edwards

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

Anne Bronte

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

Ambrose Bierce

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Rickey Henderson

Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.

Seal

We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.

Sean Connery

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

Seth Godin

I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie!

Neil Gaiman

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

Nick Lampson

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.