Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Gregory Klump

The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and slightly higher interest rates.

Ron Howard

The story of Jim Braddock continues to be so incredibly stirring because it is a tale that reminds us of just how remarkable human endurance and the power of love can be,

Larry Lawler

The tech sector continues to be a drag. Outside the manufacturing sector, the market still has a long way to go.

Jim Crocker

The team continues to pull rabbits out of the hat.

Simon Poidevin

I've been as puzzled as many out there as to why he hasn't had a go. He's such a great runner I just hope he continues to go on with it.

David Shove

Aetna's fourth-quarter earnings demonstrate that this rejuvenated national franchise continues to win the enrollment race.

Bill Richardson

Sanctions on Iraq are not going to be lifted while Iraq continues to violate Security Council,

Sharon Versyp

Purdue played great defense. We didn't knock down shots. When that doesn't happen, it just manifests itself and continues to go bad.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Kenny Tang

Profit-taking dragged the index lower. But funds are still in Hong Kong and are helping support the index despite the pressure on stocks to trade lower after the weak showing of overseas markets.

Al Goldman

Our economy is doing well despite what is going on in Asia, and with any signs of improvement from there, it could be up, up and away for us.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

Alberto Ramos

Despite the recent pickup, total investment spending in the economy is still lower than the level of 2001 and, as a share of GDP...below the 1997-2000 average.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Garth Illingworth

ACS phoned home and told us it was okay and raring to go.

Brian Robison

Someone's going home with a loss. And I don't plan on it being us.

James Purefoy

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

Dennis Kavelman

So there are a lot of different places to go in our home market.

Tim Meadows

Once you had Del say that you were good, you were good. To be able to make him laugh or impress him . . . once you got his respect, you were home free.

Rick Comley

Sometimes you like to win maybe better or prettier but, whatever, we'll take the win and go home and get ready for Saturday.

Bill Shine

Ten years ago he was taking the Long Island Railroad home from work after the show and now he can't do that anymore. I know that because I used to ride with him.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Bill Graham

Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bereket Selassie

Housing is a huge retention issue for the military.

Gregory Gieber

Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Waisale Serevi

I've spoken to all of them and they're interested to play in Melbourne.

Hugh Johnson

The worry is that the lid, or the cap, on interest rates is now off.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Janet Eissenstat

This is not your father's bank. There is a whole new range of products out there that earns interest and still keeps money safe.

Fay Guarraci

The way we measure their interest is they go back and revisit the male after they've just had some sexual interaction with them.

Graeme Smith

That's why I say we can learn a lot from the Aussies about how they all work together in the interest of their cricket, even though we don't always like what they're saying.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Alfred Kugel

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Suki Waterhouse

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

M. Wolfe

The more participants we have, the better we can be. I think we can have a real strength in numbers.

Jeff Carnazzo

The strength of our team has been our defense.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Benjamin Bratt

My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

Jane Goodall

I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.

Bruce Lee

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all