Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

Until power is hooked back up, until there are places where you can go get gas and you can go get something to eat, I'm better off being here.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Brad Dean

We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level.

Francis Gaskins

They have high-quality natural gas there, and it's just in the right place at the right time.

John Lichtblau

They (drivers) are not going to substantially reduce gasoline consumption.

Tom Snyder

They should stay the same. Gas prices go up and down. There are no long-term projections.

Harold Vogel

They've come through this higher gas price period quite well. They had a very strong marketing program for Disneyland's 50th anniversary. This will be a good indication that as long as gas prices don't go up too much more, that things will be OK over there.

Bill Richards

They say this station has pumped gasoline for over 50 years. I hope we never stop.

Jerry Taylor

It's not really a compensation for higher gas prices. It's simply a please-vote-for-me-in-November payment.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

David Goodwin

Until they can get that higher rent, they aren't going to build.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Ned Riley

A lot of these stocks were much higher a year ago than they are today. Clearly, the bottom-fishing issue is important and real.

Jerry Cooper

They may want to make a higher offer, but they haven't contacted us yet.

Beth Givens

They may not really know who is working for them. There could be a higher risk for fraud.

Stan Heath

They play at a much higher level at home. I have to make sure our players understand that and that we're prepared for that.

Vickie Warehime

We have no indication that anybody's been harmed.

Bob Burke

What they're saying is there's no indication at all of mechanical failure.

Brian Billick

They put him in a cast, so that accelerates it. That's not an indication that it's any more serious.

Gina Uccelli

They have a decision? When we left, they said they would let us know verbally. They really didn't give us any indication it would be this soon.

F. Schumacher

There was some indication over the winter, but if you go back to the winter before 2004 there were similar indications but we managed to solve the situation, ... This year we didn't.

Herb Sendek

There was no indication that we would perform the way we did tonight.

Herb Kelleher

There was no indication that the runway was wet and they have no indications of any problems at all with the plane,

Margaret Gallardo

There was no indication that anything was wrong.

Mike Stofile

There is no transformation at all, not even an indication of it.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Bernard Ebbers

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Callie Khouri

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

Edwin Land

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Alan Jackson

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Chinua Achebe

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

Chinua Achebe

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

Edna Ferber

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Bobby Heenan

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

Ryan Seacrest

It's OK to cry. It's because you care.

Carlos Ruiz

It's OK if I score, but it's much better if my team wins.

John Tanner

It's okay to go if you know where you are going.

Riley Polumbus

There were just OK rooms here and there.

Steve Salwei

We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Billy Donovan

We've got a very quick turnaround. We're going to have to get a lot done in a very short period of time.

Nina Tassler

We'll be as competitive in the time period as we can.

Andrew Flintoff

We bowled well as a unit which we have been doing for a period of time,

Aaron Stern

A lot of his stuff was a lot slower, so there was a period of time where we were all worried. I was really worried because I was like man, this is nothing like our old stuff.

Barry Trotz

They threw a lot of rubber at us. The 21 shots in the first period were embarrassing.

Rahul Kohli

For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'

Nicolas Sarkozy

For a period of 12 days, searches will be possible every time we suspect possession of weapons, ... systematically apprehend troublemakers and systematically prevent a spread of violence.

Margaret Thatcher

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

Rafael Ramirez

We have said that this is a structural issue, not a short-term factor, and the price is going to stay the same,

Brett Ellis

We're starting to see hundreds of price reductions a day.

Jim Rohn

For every promise, there is price to pay.

Mason Morfit

This is the wrong price at the wrong time with the wrong process.

Stephen Davis

We know we'll be successful with this operation. The only question is the price we'll pay.

Tom Schlesinger

As a group, they will have a sense they have something to prove and that what they have to prove is they can be tough on price stability.

Aditya Mittal

As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.

Andrew Harrington

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

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Chen Yonglin

All prices went up by about 1,400 yuan (per ton),

John Calverley

There was a view that prices would keep going up forever.

T. Boone Pickens

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

Scott Bailey

As long as futures are steadily climbing, we can look for rising prices (at the pump).

John Maxwell

Prices will come down, ... There will be stability.

Claude Mandil

Prices today are much too high, even at $50.

Andrew Harrington

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

Alan Perlis

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

Sandy Williams

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

Nathan Myhrvold

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Charles Evers

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

Josh Matthews

We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good

Bill Gates

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Paul Davis

As someone that respected the jersey, respected the university, respected the program and did everything for it.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Howard Bellamy

It's been quite a run and quite an accomplishment.

Dan Cleary

It's just not quite 100 percent. It's getting close.

James Zogby

They have a surplus of capital, and they're doing quite well.

Alice Stewart

This has been in the works for quite some time.

John Leddy

They've actually been quite cooperative and very enthusiastic. They actually see this as strategically something they want to participate in.

Charles Dickens

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.