Famous Quotes & Sayings

Townsend Harris

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Kevin Rollins

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

Jim Rogers

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, high prices led companies to overproduce, leading to substantial excess supply and stockpiling.

Jim Rogers

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Gerard Arpey

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

Larry Page

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Arthur Rock

Well, you got to realize that I have no scientific background so, you know, all the scientific mumbo jumbo doesn't mean a lot to me.

Kevin Rollins

And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

Wellington Mara

The Church, presumably in the person of Cardinal O'Connor, had at one time refused to let the Governor preach in certain churches and school halls.

Delbert Teille

When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting treatment, and my parents had to mortgage the house to pay for it. I spent Christmas in the hospital. When I got out my father had bought me my first Lionel train set, a model Union Pacific line.

Lisa Delbridge

Bought a truck full of stuff for next year and they will be out here next year.

Tim Taylor

We talked about getting better in practice from day one. They bought into it and we never looked past anyone.

Nick DiDomenico

We just had a good group of kids who bought into what we've been teaching for years. In the past you might have a few kids who were really serious, but we had a group that did everything it had to do to be a special team.

Neil Wilson

No. I bought her something at Christmas time, but I didn't give it to her.

Ian Millward

Bryan played the first 40 minutes and he came through alright. He was very rusty but he did quite well. He is a lot of weeks away from being the player the club bought and I won't rush him. I'll see how he is on Thursday. He definitely won't be in the 13 for Friday for but I could put him on the interchange (bench).

Ken Stevenson

I'm always trying to find positives. I'm always challenging these kids, and I think they have really bought into what my coaches and I are telling them. As long as we give 110 percent and stick to what we do (best), I'm not mad.

Jim Pattison

My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.

Don Walsh

Frank didn't know until 2 p.m. yesterday that he was the winner, ... His winning ticket was sitting in an envelope at the bar, and even though they knew the winning ticket was bought at Pell Lake, nobody tried to look in the envelopes and see who had the winner.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Kevin Norrish

This is definitely not about buying up oil resources in order to ship the oil into China.

Tony Dwyer

We could pull back a bit, but it will be limited to about a 5 percent decline and it will be quick. This market rally has not been about buying interest, but about the total lack of selling interest.

Ed Eastin

We wanted to come out and be as physical as we can. The kids are really buying into it.

Malcolm Smith

Gas prices are way too high. What I make cutting grass, I turn right around and spend on gas. (Gas) shouldn't be this high. Other than quit buying gas, I don't really know how we can solve the problem.

Deborah White

Most of us had known days ago that the U.S. would loan oil, but some people interpreted the headline as a release of oil, possibly of products. Then the market realized and started buying it back,

Hiroichi Nishi

Steelmakers may see more buying on the back of higher reported profits.

Philip Reed

Manufacturers are getting so much better at making and designing cars. The competition between manufacturers is ferocious, so reliability is still a big factor in a buying decision.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

Bina Ramani

We are the only witnesses who stood firm in the case, but we did not hear anything (about the look-out notices) from the police.

Ma Jun

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

John Hanley

I can't, and don't even know that. I do know there are no firm plans yet.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Anirvan Banerji

Wage growth is firm but it's not that elevated.

Peter Senge

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

Rig Veda

The person, who takes a resolution and works towards his goal with firm conviction, always gets its fulfilled.

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

David Blunkett

I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.

Bill Smith

It's always been in the air, since the day it opened.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.