Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Henley

As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft and does not appear to be improving.

Michael Gregory

As far as the Fed goes, it really isn't inflation on the ground that's a concern, it's inflation down the road. For a very long time, they've offset that with global concerns, but there doesn't appear to be any more world crises to worry about.

Jim Nelson

As far as I could tell, the governor appeared to be trying to get support for the bill on the (Senate) floor.

Randall Luthi

As far as I can estimate from the preliminary projections ... it does appear that we may have unexpected revenues of approximately a billion dollars,

Mark Ternent

As a result of Pennsylvania's large human and bear populations, bears and people are coming into contact frequently. These encounters occur because housing developments and businesses continue to encroach into bear habitat and more bears are living closer to people than ever before. Chance encounters in the field also appear to be more common than before in some areas.

James Mays

As currently envisaged by some proponents, the program would appear to serve more as a revenue-generating scheme than a security program that would benefit passengers.

Anthony Chan

The bottom line is that consumers experienced a soft patch in the first quarter and they appear to be emerging from it,

Chris Morrison

The bottom line is I would expect some form of debt exclusion question to appear on next April's ballot, either to cover the design costs or the whole thing, ... We cannot obtain state approval and the funding that comes with it without a commitment from the voters.

Sean Maloney

The business market remains slow for PCs, but it doesn't appear that we have lost significant market share, ... Average selling prices are about where we thought they would be.

Mark Vaile

As authority is transferred back to an Iraqi administration in mid-2004, the reconstruction of vital oil installations will provide jobs, skills and technology to the Iraq people.

Kevin O'Connor

Any decent person, using their common sense would know they no longer have the authority to be in a homicide scene.

Mahbubur Rahman

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

Sharon Salzberg

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Peggy Venable

We feel strongly they do have the authority and responsibility to review textbooks.

Anthony de Mello

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

Kathy Walt

Well (expletive). Colley doesn't have the authority to call out the national guard. Only the governor does. This kind of (expletive) has been going on all day.

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

J. A. Konrath

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Mal Peet

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Gayle Lynds

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

Judy Kirkpatrick

We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.

Sophie Kinsella

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

Robert Gottlieb

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

Janet Fitch

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.

Richard K. Morgan

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

Peter Dixon

A second half recovery has already been priced in and we are well into the quarterly reporting season. The economic data due out this week will be pivotal and if it does come in worse than expected, there is scope for downside.

Mark Gertler

A year and a half ago it was pretty obvious how to forecast the path of the funds rate. Now, I think what happens is really going to depend on the new data that comes in.

Elga Bartsch

As long as the data point to an ongoing economic recovery, they should feel comfortable about normalizing rates. If anything, the survey numbers are more robust than before.

Joel Kastner

Our data suggest that the planet-forming process may be hardier than previously believed, occurring around even the most massive stars.

Fernando Ferrer

Our data suggests that Latino turnout will be as strong as it was last time.

Robert Rosen

Our data is telling us that updated and improved standards of practice for storm water management would enhance water quality and do a better job of handling the volume of run-off.

Steven Hall

Our data doesn't indicate that you're not going to be able to see the Wind River mountains,

Lee Ferridge

People are still digesting Friday's data and wondering whether the short-term reaction to sell the dollar was right,

Steven Camarota

People come here to work, ... sliced the data really thin.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Carl Erskine

Sometimes it seems the more you know, the less sure you are of yourself, ... I can just sit back and watch and not have to sweat it out for either side. What I know is, anything can happen in a short series.

Yoweri Museveni

Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . . . the one I am flying all the time. I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked, or there was some side wind, or the instruments failed, or there was an external factor.

Marsha Blackburn

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

Thomas Campion

Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.

Roger Monson

Russia could go down 50 percent or up 150 percent. Either they do it or they don't.

Jonathan Coleman

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

Steve Erickson

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Mark Richt

Quentin is thinking it all through before making a decision. I don't think either one is 100 percent sure about what he's going to do yet.

Jim Ecker

As far as I know there is no evidence at all in any way, shape, or form that she was kidnapped or anything like that at all happened.

Bret Ellis

As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely tilt in favor of the truth,

Jim Griffiths

That plays on the stereotype of the loose and passionate Latin female. It's also sure evidence that such things were going on.

Michael Hendricks

Progress was slow at first, but the evidence is mounting that restoration is working.

David Barron

probably the most important evidence you will hear in this case.

Max Mosley

Any evidence of team orders will be put in front of stewards, and I mean any evidence,

Bob Francis

anything else that the evidence leads us to.

Nobuki Goto

Technology stocks are playing catch-up to the rest of the market with some evidence that they've hit bottom.

Gary Schwartz

Scientists have long been fascinated with robust australopithecines because they were so distinctive from the neck up. Now we have evidence that they were interesting from the knee down as well.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Bill Cox

Of course, we don't know exactly all the facts and circumstances. But apparently, there had been a disagreement. We weren't there. We don't what all went on. But we know how it culminated. We know how it ended. It was tragic and horrible.

Jim Sheehan

No one was ejected and the reason explained to me is that the officials couldn't identify exactly what happened. That to me is disappointing.

Dennis Hastert

The second thing that we have to do is to make sure that this doesn't happen again. And we need to look into the investigation of exactly what happened, whose responsibility, so if we move forward, we don't have this problem again.

Kevin Barry

The signature is the same because they are exactly the same in production. So it's the same make and model.

Eric Larkin

The three of us know exactly what the other is going to do. We're finally playing together, which is a necessity at the end of the season.

Don Olson

The summer sunset would be way over to the north of the pier -- far to the artist's right, whereas summer full Moons would run low in the sky and set exactly where he shows it. That tells us that the yellow disk must be the full Moon.

Romeo Crennel

The specialist indicated they're going to try some remedies to get it worked out. Exactly what they're trying, I'm not sure.

Mike Enzi

I've always said that if a picture is worth a thousand words then being on the ground is worth a thousand pictures. That's exactly what I've seen today.

Jonathan Pochyly

People who have been good friends will turn on someone because they aren't following the same path. You have to question whether you want them to be your friends anyway.

Roger Thomas

The monkey was off our back. We played a home game the following week, and I remember telling the team, 'Guys, we have to find our goalpost.' It was kind of crooked, but we had it up by the next week.

Jennifer Harbury

The soldier who tortures can now simply state that he or she was following orders.

Alan Greenspan

The system worked. Moreover, following September 11, 2001, we found that the Y2K preparations and fixes had far-greater reach than we had realized,

Marco Rubio

I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned.

Masayoshi Okamoto

After going through volatility in recent trade, not many investors would like to hold their positions through the three-day weekend. And when they square positions, most of them are short following Tokyo's recent downtrend.

Neil Schwartz

Texas has a much more national following than USC.

Paul Levine

Right now the stock market is following the price of oil, and in the intermediate term, oil prices look to go higher.

Cedric Benson

I've been following what those guys are doing. My time will come.

Jeffrey Benjamin

A search for true happiness is found when you look no further than your forehead.

Tarik Minor

Authorities said Mills was under the influence of drugs when they found her.

Robert Kirshner

People thought ... the universe was just coasting ... Instead, we found it is actually speeding up.

Carl Wong

After speaking with the teacher and principal there, I found the situation to be somewhat of an isolated incident.

Jerry Patterson

Coastal wind power has come to the United States and found a home in Texas.

Dick Gephardt

are things that I've found when I met with the president.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Tilda Swinton

And the idea of going through the back of a wardrobe into this parentless land where you're the only people who can prevail, I found really moving.

Angela Johnson

I've loved The Nest ever since I found out about it.

James Stephens

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

Nick Rimando

Another week to two weeks, hopefully less than that. I want to make sure I'm 100 percent healthy before I go out there again.

James Pennebaker

As an outsider, this one-shot policy strikes me as a little extreme, ... Somehow, we view mental health as totally under a person's control, whereas physical health is not.

Caitlyn Jenner

As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

Mikhail Gorbachev

As a human being, I want to support Boris Nikolayevich (Yeltsin) and wish him recovery, ... the president's health is also a political matter.

Drew Altman

a slow but perceptible deterioration of our employer-based (health insurance) system.

Doug Johnson

Rather than mosquitoes just being a nuisance, it's really become a real health concern.

Jan C. Ting

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

Bill Maris

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

John Tesh

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

Geoffrey Chaucer

And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

Jerry B. Jenkins

No life is messier than one in ministry

Gloria Allred

Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them.

Betty Cuthbert

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Barry Unsworth

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

Ronda Rousey

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

Tom Sneddon

We have a cooperative victim in this particular proceeding.

James Allen

We say use a program that is appropriate for the particular situation.

Martin Lee

There's one particular woman who does a lot of cooking.

Dave Riggins

We've been working on this particular program since November.

Mike Slive

What I think you should know is that I'm not wedded to any particular format.

Larry Jensen

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

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

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.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.