Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Boulud

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

Jaime Ray Newman

I just feel like they're a network I have a good vibe with, and I'm very grateful. My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well, and they have good, discerning taste.

Darin Strauss

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.

Robert Brown

Where is the thread now? Off again! / The old trick! only I discern - / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.

Tamsin Greig

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

David Hallberg

Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.

Lactantius Lactantius

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Bible Bible

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue

William Henry Channing

Even in evil, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

John Hughs

Greenspan is the least influential event this week. We know where the economy is, and there isn't much expectation of him saying anything new.

Richard Franulovich

Greenspan is speaking on the economy and ... the unmistakable message from the Fed is that hurricanes only represent a transitory risk.

Anthony Chan

Greenspan has to give reassurance that, if things deteriorate, the Fed is willing to act. But the underlying structure of the economy seems pretty good.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down. I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

David Blitzer

I think it's a fairly narrow change. I don't think it's anything to worry about.

Jim Boeheim

He just had a fluke injury in practice, and we're hoping he'll be back soon. We're hopeful he would be able to play fairly soon, but we don't know.

Stephen J. Cannell

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

Mike Mueller

He's a fairly reclusive fellow, and our interview is pretty fun.

Jeff Gundy

He's a fairly intelligent player. He's undersized. He's got pretty good feet. At the lower levels, he's proven he can rebound.

Richard Kennedy

For men we can sometimes overcome the problem fairly easily. For women, we can't. I don't think men should get overly anxious.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

Carl Duke

Historically, we rate fairly high on our services. I would hope that this would continue.

Paul Griffiths

Historically, cocaine was a fairly rare drug in Europe.

Richard Codey

Katrina was a devastating hurricane, not a financial windfall for the shameless.

Peter Thiel

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Robert LaFleur

I think it could get noisy; it could get ugly from a PR point of view. (But) it's more headline risk than any real financial risk.

Rick Pudner

It (becoming a financial center) could be a little faster.

Richard Morton

He left us without saying anything to anyone. The league said they hadn't heard from him. So we had no financial backing.

Jessica Jackley

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

Pete Lindstrom

Hackers are now being lured by the promise of financial gains.

John W. Snow

I think we'll be successful with the quiet financial diplomacy,

Glen Taylor

It isn't that we couldn't use somebody like that. It would have to be one of those things where New York would have to say that they really want to get rid of the player and could help us in some financial way to do it. We wouldn't know until this summer if that would even be a possibility.

Ndamukong Suh

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Barclay Tagg

He kept going lame. He was going through growing pains, I guess.

Jessica Sanders

He really wants to sit down and work with us, ... I think that's so important because we are growing so much.

Danny Clark

He's a smart guy. He's getting better every time he lines up. But he's still got some growing to do, and hopefully we can stunt some of his growth this week.

John Deane

I think it's a question of institutional pride of this body. There has been a growing tendency to let the president do what he wants.

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Bobby Schindler

I think you're seeing the growing support of the pro-life movement.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term. Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Carolina Milanesi

Growth will slow down going into the second and third quarter.

James Avery

Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.

Will Strauss

Growth will be about 16% this year. That's good, but not spectacular. I don't see any shortages this year.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Alan Levenson

I think they have sent a message that I'm surprised that they wanted to send to the market. I think the markets are seeing the neutral directive and they are saying, 'Well, they're done,' which I think is wrong.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Niklas Zennstrom

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

Greg Valliere

If you look at who the markets would be the most comfortable with, and that has to be one of the top criteria, then Feldstein has got to be the No. 1 pick,

Gerard Daffy

I'm not sure about the quality of the opposition but you had to tighten them up in the markets on the back of that performance.

Steve Jobs

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Ken Tower

They haven't so much moved their money out of the markets as they have moved it from one place to another.

Cliff Lee

New York is probably one of the most competitive markets in the country.

Robin Zander

The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

Chris Gabrieli

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

Carol Rebello

I made all my payments on time, but I never got a mortgage bill.

Dexter Holland

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

Julia Gillard

I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.

Martin Lewis

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.

John Porter

It's tough. My mortgage there is $2,000, and my rent here is $2,350, so we're not doing much but working and paying the mortgage.

Suze Orman

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

Jennifer Ellison

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Commissioner Robinson

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Craig Patrick

Not necessarily. He does have to get it surgically repaired, and he is going to get it done rather quickly. We'll see how quickly he can come back.

Paul Newton

It's different than university. Things have to be done quickly here. Timelines aren't as urgent at university.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Jeremy Friesen

The view on where U.S. rates go seems to be most contentious.

Glenn Thomas

And, we have been struggling with our rates ever since.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Peter Banko

It's not critical. It's not serious. It's just stable at this time.

John Heywood

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

Mark Zuckerberg

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Chris Presson

Financially, we're more stable than we've been in many, many years.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Lloyd Jones

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Michael Campbell

I just tried to give us some confidence.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Michael Campbell

It is a long way to come for one week and go back again,

Doug MacIntyre

We may see another week or two of increases.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Ryan Lochte

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

Sarah Silverman

If I don't do stand-up for two weeks, I get freaked out.