Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Brennan Bilberry

People understand the disgusting length this organization will sink to, to attack a woman who has dedicated her entire life to children. It will absolutely backfire.

John Schuerholz

Our doctors say that injury heals itself. I hate to lose him for one day (but) it just takes time. It should take no more than that time and maybe not even quite as much time as the 15 days will provide. To be absolutely certain that he is healthy when he returns, we're putting him on the list.

Steve MacFarlane

Northwest is doing absolutely nothing to indicate they want an agreement.

Brian Blume

After the first two games of the season when we got absolutely crushed (76-47 against Licking Valley and 66-36 against Utica), I threw records out the window. I wasn't going to look at wins and losses. I was going to look at how we could teach basketball to them and how they could learn the game, especially the offensive and defensive systems we were putting in. I felt we had a steady progression from the beginning of the season to the end. I felt at the end of the season that they had a good knowledge of the game. I felt we had a successful season because they learned how to play.

Scott Bailey

After realizing that some of our biggest spikes in site traffic were immediately following the race, we, along with Jack Daniels, launched the call-in show and are absolutely pleased with last season's success.

Rusty Petrea

Once we achieve the practice facility, this place will be absolutely world class.

Craig Wright

Once the schedule's been absolutely rubber-stamped, we'll seek the advice of the Scottish Executive and the Foreign Office,

Monica Baldwin

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

Christine Lagarde

There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),

Tony Blair

That's why it's important, I think, that as long as it takes -- and maybe it's not possible to reach consensus at the moment -- that there is a reform of the Security Council at some stage.

David George

Don't run the consensus up, especially not in the first quarter.

Jeoff Hall

Anecdotes, including purchasing manager surveys and regional and national Fed indices, do little to support the consensus view of a 210,000 gain. Moreover, the market has a tendency to overestimate November payrolls.

Money Magazine

Earnings are supposed to be up 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002 if you look at the consensus numbers, ... But our guess is that they'll be down about 10 percent by the second quarter of 2002.

Bill Hornbarger

Everyone wants to get through the Fed with the affirmation. The consensus in the marketplace is no move out of the Fed and I do think that's been priced into the market.

Ron James

(Ferraro) has a model of what he wants, and either I fit into that model or I don't. When the season ends, we'll come to a consensus if we're heading in the right direction or the wrong direction.

Michael Shifter

There's no consensus on how to move forward.

Allan Meltzer

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Nick Sloane

The shares have done a lot in a very short time. Share gains of 30 percent in two months, plus raw materials costs still rising, could mean some investors will look to take profit in the near- term.

Ellen Smith

I've been getting this medication for 10 years without any problems, and it costs a few dollars a month.

J. M. Roberts

You're reducing the skilled people in the trade and you're creating long-term costs for the general public in a lot of ways.

Charles Bradford

You would think that with their costs going up and prices going up, you wouldn't make much more money or would do a little worse, ... But in reality, there has been a very, very strong correlation: The higher the scrap goes, the more money they make. It just means the market is better overall.

Brian Spears

You spend money to save money. People want to reduce their living costs overall and feel better about the environment.

James Malone

You're in an environment where initially those costs are not as they were before.

Gary Akright

You need to factor in the (interest-rate) differential, as well as the costs of refinancing.

Ken Lee

Demand has strengthened since July because of tax cuts and incredibly low unemployment. Sales at our stores were about 5 percent higher than the same time a year earlier.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Fred Lewis

The system is the problem. It's not the people. Whatever we paid them, it would be well worth it to cut them from being subsidized by private interests. It's wrong.

Robert Greenstein

The Texas Legislature should not have to go cut other programs for ongoing Texas residents to help the evacuees,

Jerry Kilgore

The test is not whether you've cut a tax here or there, but what has happened to the overall tax burden.

Nikki Blue

I've never cut down a net before! This means the world to me.

Dick Gephardt

I voted for the Reagan tax cut (in 1981). It was a mistake, ... We have to learn from history. It was a worthy experiment, but it was a mistake and ... we don't want to make it again.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Veerappa Moily

The talks are in the final stages and a decision will be made here itself in two days.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Rob Reiner

This isn't about Republicans or Democrats. It's about investing in our children.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Larry Woolsey

Before investing in snowshoes, rent some to get an idea of what you want.

Rob Reiner

This isn't about Republicans or Democrats. It's about investing in our children.

Larry Woolsey

Before investing in snowshoes, rent some to get an idea of what you want.

Edward Tenthoff

Biotech investing is no longer a pie-in-the-sky game.

Theo Epstein

We think investing in Coco was a wise move.

Daniel S. Loeb

Timing is everything in this markets.

Robert Reich

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Thorstein Veblen

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

Steven Spielberg

I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

John Templeton

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Linda Foley

The ones who are serving life sentences are victims.

Ken Scholen

The older you are, the more money you can get because life expectancy is shorter.

Larry Brown

After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone

Gore Vidal

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Manju Warrier

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

Tim Howard

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whether I'm playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

Robert Edwards

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

Henry Selick

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

Bridget Hall

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

George Carlin

What are you going to do, play with your prick for another 20 to 30 years,>Read People Magazine your whole life...? Take a freakin' chance!

Dolly Parton

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something ... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then

Tina Fey

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

Michael Jackson

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

Taylor Twellman

For us to get in this magazine is big for the league. We're on our way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

Jeffrey Bewkes

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

Ira Levin

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Martin O'Malley

Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.

Alexander Frolov

Right now, the money to play in Russia is very large. But I really wanted to play in the NHL, and especially in L.A. I really like the city. I really want to play here and try to win the Stanley Cup.

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

S. Walker

Saving money turns out to be the universal application, ... That's why Wal-Mart is as big as Wal-Mart is.

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer

Quick money is lifesaving money. The system is stretched.

Mike Richards

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

Pam Metcalf

Everyone stepped up when we needed them to step up.

Dennis Lindsay

At the end of the day the positive thing is they realized as well that they needed to back off from that.

Freddy Adu

didn't want me that deep. He said he needed me up top to get some offense.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

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DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.

Toby Bryant

Corbin turned it up when he needed to.

Martin Freeman

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

Scott Gomez

This one's different because we needed the points. It took us a while, for whatever reason, but when everybody's doing their role, we're tough to beat.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line. We think microprocessors were OK,

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line, ... We think microprocessors were OK.

Dennis Anderson

The uniqueness of this product provides insulation from competition.

Ken Hamlin

We had the right product at the right time.

Todd Holmdahl

We will wind up cost-reducing the product every year.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Tim Ferriss

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.