Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Mitchell

Probably 80 per cent of it (is due to youth and inexperience). They come out with veteran guys who understand the league and know how to play. We come out with second-year guys, it's tough.

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Steven Aftergood

an implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator of the nation's intelligence production.

Lance Penny

The stuff they're smoking today is far more powerful than when I was running around being a hippie. It has gone from one or two per cent THC to 22 to 25 per cent THC.

Dennis Curtin

The supermarket competition is very intense in Central Pennsylvania, and that competition helps control prices passed on to the consumer,

Megan Smith

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

Ben Bernanke

The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long time.

Ernest Mandel

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

Ron Redmond

After more than a quarter of a century of misrule, much still remains to be done to rebuild the country. Overall, the conditions are in place for refugees to return to their country in safety and dignity.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Rick Anderson

Coming up here, it was pretty quiet. You're just sitting there and thinking how unfair the whole situation is.

Mack Brown

Coming up here, everybody picked us to lose. Nobody gave us a chance.

O. Singh

Coming up here and trying to defend is my main priority. I like playing golf tournaments, I like winning golf tournaments and this is one of them I'd like to defend if I can.

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Sean Comey

This is not a lot to reassure the consumer. The only upside to high prices is that it should ensure a steady supply because there is an economic incentive to produce and ship it.

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Suresh Kalmadi

Of the eight new venues, five will be outdoors and three indoors.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

David Crane

After eight years and the last three hours and 10 minutes, this is so worth the wait.

Robert Harrison

Some people have had to wait eight months to get their roofs repaired,

Gavin Kane

Once we were down by seven or eight we went to that trap. I thought we got after it great and turned them over a few times and got them rattled.

Jimmy Fennig

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

David Wyatt

Thanks for the eight years, Charlottesville. It was everything we hoped for and more.

Herman Gorter

Russia had an industrial proletariat of some seven or eight millions. The number of poor peasants, however, amounted to about 25 millions.

John Heisdorffer

Right now we've raised about $15 million, and that's only after eight meetings. I don't figure we'll be doing these meetings too much longer.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Tim Pease

That's when we're at our best, when five guys are playing defense, five guys are running and we're sharing the ball.

Ken Young

Right now we're in Phase One. Phase Two will give us more room to accommodate a growth in students.

John Sicher

Quaker Oats' grain-based snacks could show real growth within the Frito-Lay marketing and distribution system,

Dave Pieknik

I've seen an exponential growth since the two years I've been coaching.

Charles DiSanza

(These businesses) are a unified part of their ongoing high growth business, and...should stay as part of that business.

Kenny Guinn

is important to all of us in terms of water, and open land and growth.

Jared Bernstein

I've been pretty happy to see the pace of job growth in professional services.

William Baldwin

It wouldn't surprise me if Pier 1's ongoing situation leads to some management shuffle unless things improve, ... Pier 1 has called itself a growth company, not a value company. For that it needs to grow its top line and profits.

Kevin Rottinghaus

The wireless handset market is getting better so there is opportunity for Intel to see some growth,

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Tim Brown

Currituck is much improved from when we saw a little over a month ago.

Kristi Clemens

We have drastically improved port and cargo security since 9/11.

Gary Green

With Jacques, you know they'll be well-coached. As long as Roberto plays well, they should be a significantly improved team.

Lance Manning

We improved as the scrimmage went on. In the later part, we played a lot better.

James Perry

We'll start to see improved margins and some very nice flow-through in the third quarter.

Dorothy Lakner

The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

Lisa Randall

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.