Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Evan Osnos

By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.

J. J. Johnson

By that I could tell he was a consistent bowler. His average spoke for itself. I don't think I was taking a chance.

Jack Wilson

Honestly, raising my average to where it is now has probably been the biggest up-hill battle of my career. I just want to finish as high as I can and put the start to this season behind me.

Chris Collins

He's worked harder than the average senior. Aubrey has pushed himself and has really bulked up and kept himself straight.

Robert White

Human beings are complicated, yet from our experience of working with hundreds of thousands of people, weve learned that most or even all of the average persons neuroses and hang-ups disappear when they start giving and serving others.

Bo Ryan

He's a pretty versatile player. He's taller than average at 6-11 and he can shoot it, he can pass it and he values the game. If he doesn't have a good shot, he'll pass it, but he also knows he's got the green light to shoot it.

Mark Teague

Generally, we have designed the flashing don't walk to correspond to an average pedestrian speed. In recent years, research has shown that pedestrian speeds are not that similar.

Ignacio Bunye

The president believes she has a mandate based on the 2004 elections...Maybe at a later time, we can talk about transitory provisions.

Jacob Lew

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Rick DeLisi

Business travelers make the decisions based on schedule, leisure travelers do it based on price. We think we can be very competitive in both areas.

Paul Zimmerman

But based on (what we saw), yes, I think the Bears are legitimate Super Bowl contenders. The Bears now have a quarterback who resembles an NFL quarterback. Hooray. What a surprise.

Todd Duncan

Based upon what we've seen in the basement, eventually left uncorrected, it could actually collapse to the center,

Omar Minaya

Based upon what we heard, it's more of a precautionary thing.

Stephen Ross

Based upon what I know, I think Bell is bullish.

Kevan Casey

Based upon the satellite data we have received from Hawkeye and the results from our first well, we believe we have selected an extremely desirable location for our second well. We are still in the testing phase of our initial well after our fracture stimulation treatment in February 2006.

Mark Dyer

Based upon the proposals that we have reviewed internally for the past several months, we believe these three cities provide us with the best opportunity to build and develop a world-class NASCAR Hall of Fame for our millions of loyal fans.

Colby Armstrong

One hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old in this league. That's pretty unbelievable. It's definitely something I want to help him achieve. Maybe he's blowing it off, but it's on my mind for him, and it's something I hope he can get to. But I think he's just going to play his game. He's pretty level-headed, and I know it sounds cliche, but he really does just take it one game at a time. And that's good on his part just to stay focused. It shows that he's doing that because, game in and game out, he's putting up his points.

Joseph Abboud

I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes us more creative by taking traditional concepts and blowing them out a little bit.

Franco Pavoncello

That in my opinion would be a serious blow in the sense that he would be a convicted prime minister in office,

Lloyd Carr

That's a big blow to us. Our plans were to play him at quarterback this spring. So we'll have to see how that goes.

Pat Russo

We had a couple of opportunities to blow the game open, but we didn't. We won, so we'll take it.

John Lane

We saw minimal structural damage. The lid did blow off the external conveyor.

Paul Simon

Who am I to blow against the wind?

Orson Scott Card

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

Martin Corry

We were very poor, this is a huge blow but we've got to take it on the chin

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The time has come to build here and I will build here.

Leo Veness

I stand here watching the minutes count the hours.As the seconds build up the minutes.I have become a victorious victim, to the day and its diminishing digits.

Jack Straw

What we are doing, with the United Nations ' full support, is helping that full majority of Iraqis build what we have here -- a democratic, stable, prosperous and peaceful society.

Jon Jansen

We've really set ourselves up for a good stretch here. We've accomplished a lot this year. We set a good foundation, and that's something we can build on.

Dave Checketts

We've really battled through this. Now we have a change to build Soccer City USA.

Michael Crews

We've reached the point where we can build on this. I feel pretty good about next year.

Ted Kaczynski

What a toughie. It was a hard-fought battle. I was very pleased with my girls' overall effort and intensity. We didn't quite have enough to pull it out but it was a game we can build on for the future.

Craig Colten

We tend to build for the last storm.

Reinhard Kurth

We cannot say when it will be on the market. Those who are very optimistic are saying at the end of 2007.

Edward Kennedy

We cannot say it is wartime for the rest of America, but still peacetime for the rich,

Felix Umansky

We cannot say he is out of danger.

Toshihiko Fukui

We cannot say for sure that the current recovery will be durable and strong enough to push the economy back to a sustained growth path.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

We cannot say at this stage whether there are prospects of the six-party talks resuming.

Elizabeth Warren

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

Barbara Howard

We cannot rule out some small residual influence of the surgery itself on cardiovascular events. But it looks as if women with hysterectomies have more heart disease because women who get hysterectomies also have more risk factors.

Edward Meir

We cannot rule out further gains later in the week, particularly if (DOE) inventory numbers surprise.

Amando Tetangco

We cannot rule out a tightening of monetary policy in the short run.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

John Taylor

There's no question that in 2002 and 2003 that a lot of investment went to later-stage companies because they entailed much less risk.

Henrik Rasmussen

There's no trodden path here. We can't go back and look at what other companies have done because no other company has done this.

Emery Simon

There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive force to our industry.

James Mulva

The trend toward consolidation is being driven by globalization, with mergers giving companies from all industries sufficient scale and a lower cost structure to enable them to compete in a global arena.

Bob Master

The trends are all the same here, that no matter how profitable these companies get, they still are trying to downgrade these jobs. That's what we are trying to draw the line against. And we hope that the public will understand.

Ernie Goss

The trend in economic reports from supply managers in our survey has been fairly positive since October of last year following some of the negative shipping impacts from Hurricane Katrina. Companies with strong ties to the state's growing ethanol industry reported solid growth for February but were very optimistic about future economic growth for this sector.

Kirby Jones

The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world. Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made.

Larry Kenswil

The tobacco company can kill us. The package food companies can clog our arteries. The oil companies can provoke wars. But, apparently, there's no industry more despicable than the music industry. We are hated just because we refuse to acknowledge the public's God-given rights to steal music.

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Spencer White

Vietnam is one of the last frontier emerging economies in the region that will demand serious investor attention.

Abby Bellows

The 17 students sitting in Madison Hall are not sitting for arrest. We're demanding a living wage; we're not demanding to get arrested.

Shelby Seyrafi

They grew at 14 percent. That's very impressive. I expected them to grow at 12 percent.