Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Anderson

In most cases, we're talking about sleeping in an armchair for the night.

Jonathan Franzen

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

Gary Weiss

The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.

Greg Ambrosius

It's the old armchair quarterback theory, that a fan can be a better coach, better owner than the guy in the owner's box. This gives you an opportunity to prove you know football better than the pros.

Greg Ambrosius

It's the old armchair quarterback theory. People always think they're a better coach or the better owner. Fantasy football is tailor-made to live out that armchair quarterback life. You get to pick the players. It's ideal.

John Jay

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair -- why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

P. Wodehouse

She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

Nancy Evans

I have an elderly congregation. For some people, to even get out of a chair is a major effort, and they deserve credit. If they do armchair aerobics, for every 20 minutes they get one mile.

David Bowie

An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

Hugo Chavez

kingdom of equality, freedom and peace being based on justice.

Christine Karpinski

Knowing who will want to rent your vacation home and then buying based on their demands, rather than just your own family's demands, will make it much easier in the long haul when you want to rent that property out.

Mary Berry

Key officials anticipated on Election Day that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout based upon new voter registration figures, but did not ensure that the precincts in all counties received the resources to meet their needs,

Stuart Law

I wouldn't put a penny of my money there. There's also concern about the environmental impact of so much development. It's a city based on consumerism. I'm not sure that guarantees its role as a long-term holiday-home location. I wouldn't buy there.

Bill Chambers

Jack Lynch had a vision and the club was able to create this facility based on that vision.

Herschel Sandler

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

Ken Stern

I would say two weeks is on the short side . . . more likely three or possibly four, based on our experience.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Douglas Love

Know the company you're buying from, ... I would opt for purchasing directly from a Hertz or Enterprise. But I'd be careful of vehicles that come from corporations. They can generate lots of mileage.

Gary Harris

I would think they would have to come down over time. How fast and how far depends on how much fear stays in the consumer marketplace. Panic buying spurs some of this.

Patrick Kelly

I would say that I am doing less comfort purchases, like buying a CD. I am not doing that because I have to pay to get around.

George Iny

I would say overall it was a relatively stress free market. People were more on the level and the condition of the vehicles was better than buying in Toronto or Vancouver for sure.

Brian Clifford

I think it's a great time to find buying opportunities in names that you can revisit, ... It's a lot easier to buy stocks as they're coming towards you rather than running away from you. It's a good time to sharpen your pencil and go after some of these names that have kind of run away on valuation.

Grant Williamson

I think it's a continuation of buying since their better-than-expected results so that's looking very solid at the moment.

Charles Smulders

I think it may change buying behaviors of people who were willing to wait until the end of the year. They may choose to buy now instead.

H. Hunt

I think it is rather unfortunate that motorists filled up in panic buying when they will find it 4p cheaper now.

Bob Parker

He continually hauls stuff in there. He's still buying junk and putting it in there.

Mark Larson

I was looking for a way to engage students a little more directly, and involving them in a process gives more purpose to their drawing.

Massimo Moratti

I would not oppose someone who thinks he can do better and engage with the club.

Kenneth Chenault

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

John Cahill

He remains fully engaged in the issues facing the state right now.

Ernie Conwell

Here was a guy who had nothing and wanted to do the right thing, ... He wanted to go on with his life. He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.

Keith Freeman

We've got to play better. We've got to engage our minds and play more with our minds and our spirits.

Neil Young

What you'll see in these new titles are things that evoke feelings, ... They won't engage you only interactively, but they'll strive to move you emotionally.

Oliver Luck

I think what he's done is phenomenal, winning three medals in a sport he wasn't engaged in four years ago. It's a perfect sort of symbol for what we are trying to do, which is start something new.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Fadel Gheit

Investors need to think first, and not put money randomly into oil stocks,

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Brian Reynolds

Investors are saying, 'we're not getting as much for the risk, so we're not interested,'

John Bollinger

Investors are now realizing that their (worst fears) were overblown.

Keith Jarrett

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

C. S. Lewis

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

Jerome Robbins

We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

Harry Carey, Jr.

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

James Earl Jones

I consider myself a novice film actor.

Jean Toomer

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

David Cameron

I'm all for apprenticeships, but this is no time for a novice.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Susan Johnson

In Illinois, there are very scattered reports of true influenza.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Vladimir Putin

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

Robert G. Allen

You're not selling products. You're creating relationships.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Mig Ayesa

I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously,

Valentino Castellani

The interesting thing is that since Giorgio Rocca started winning his competitions, there is a correlation with the victories of Giorgio and the selling of tickets.

Mickey Gilley

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

James Hansen

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Jon Oringer

It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage.

Deidre Hall

They are our stock and trade and it has been our collateral.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Michael Friedman

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Anna Brown

I really like the sheriff's street act. It's so funny,

Juan Felipe Herrera

I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

Donnie Yen

A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression.

Fernando Ferrer

You could go to any New Yorker on the street and they will tell you they are having an affordability crisis,

Maria Rodriguez

You've got to go to the streets to get to the table.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Michelle Gomez

Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down.

Shaquille O'Neal

Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy.

Nick Cave

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Kimberley Nixon

Because of the fact I look a lot younger than I really am, I think, I end up getting these girl-next-door roles. I mean, I'm not a Gemma Arterton type as far as I can tell.

Carl Dodd

I don't know what type of person she is.

Daimon Shelton

He'll come back and get better, ... Being around him for so long and being the type of person he is, he'll respond. We'll all respond.

William Shatner

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

William Saroyan

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Martin O'Malley

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

Carl Jung

Despite the fact that he no longer dressed like the big dork he did then, despite the fact that he’d swapped the nerd wear for some much cooler clothes, despite the fact that he’d let his hair go all shaggy and loose to the point where it curved down into his face in that cool guy, slightly windswept, effortless way, despite the fact that every time I looked into his brilliant blue eyes I was totally reminded of the Zac Efron poster that used to hang on my old bedroom wall, it still didn’t make it okay for him to laugh at me the way he did.

Anton LaVey

The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge ‘entertainment centers’ covering entire walls with several TV monitors. What started as an innocent respite from everyday life has become in itself a replacement for real life for millions, a major religion of the masses.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Rob Thurman

Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like tissue paper, it clawed its way into my very center, I couldn’t tell anymore where it began and I ended. It poured into me like a river into the sea, mixing, melding, until we were one. One. For better or worse. Until death do us part.

Richard Petty

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

Richard Whately

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Richelle Mead

Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺ ʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.