Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

Scott Smith

That was a very workmanlike performance. He never let up. It was really solid technique. He controlled the pace of the match and all positions.

Ali Omar

We've got some big names on this team that get a lot of recognition, but Schumacher has been great for us. She pretty much controlled the midfield today and she was a big reason we didn't give anything up defensively.

Kevin McDaniel

Mike does all the dirty work for us. Cam scored 18 points on us, but Mike controlled him. He didn't explode on us, which we needed." ()

Travis Larson

We just couldn't finish. We had 30 shots and just one goal. It was just one of those days. We controlled the game.

Evan Bayh

will take leadership -- leadership unlike that which has controlled Washington for these last several years.

Carl Pavano

I thought I controlled the zone pretty good for someone who hadn't pitched in eight months. I thought I controlled my emotions pretty well, as excited as I was to be out there.

Matt Chapman

I was very pleased with how my team played. I thought we totally controlled the second half especially and much of the first half. Rochester has a very strong program and we took it them in the second half and did everything but score.

Alan Levine

We do want to move to a market-based system but understand it is a controlled market system.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Patrick McGurn

The '90s was the slippery slope from managing expectations to managing earnings to outright fraud.

Bill Winters

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Edward Keon

We've gotten more optimistic on earnings on U.S. stocks recently.

Stephan Droxner

VW had very strong earnings in the fourth quarter, but it was not only the numbers that were good -- overall, the tone is more optimistic now than after the third quarter.

Brendan Barnicle

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there. If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Brendan Barnicle

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there, ... If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Tim Anderson

Merck tells an interesting story, yet the five-year revenue and earnings growth guidance seems far-fetched.

Robert Long

Microsoft tomorrow is the most significant earnings report this week. Everyone knows management's usually fairly cautious, so if they say something really good, that could help things a lot.

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Chris Allen

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

Erik Anderson

The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.

Chris Liddell

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

Marguerite Cotto

We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.

Mitch Roob

This was not intended to pay him more money - it's intended to pay him the expenses he has with us.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Alan Kopit

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

Nick Clements

We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.

Ken Joyce

Our goal is for 2006 SG&A expenses to be $25 to $30 million lower than in 2005.

John Fuller

Overall, our restaurants are still doing fine. We just had a lot of expenses this go-around.

Steve Carter

I wouldn't recommend they try to make more money with a second job, since living paycheck-to-paycheck is already stressful, and they have a young child. Instead, they'll need to reduce their expenses as much as they can.

Lori Lucas

Retiree medical expenses are the big wild card. Most people will probably spend a lot more on medical expenses when they retire.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Stuart Scott

People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Errol Flynn

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Richard Stice

But what worries me is that you're going to see pressure on gross margins as film declines.

Patrick Brown

It's a gross mismanagement and a gross lack of priorities.

Tony Shiret

They have under-achieved on sales but over-achieved on gross margin gains.

Wayne Lewellen

It's within the grosses we were looking at from $18-20 million. Obviously, we hoped to get more, but that was the window we (anticipated).

Hani Durzy

They can say whatever they want about their gross market volume.

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Kevin Garnett

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Reid Scott

One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Sepp Blatter

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

Robert Morton

we can keep an inventory of what we got, what we need.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

Phil Garner

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,

Bruce Lee

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Clint Hurdle

We're not going to continually put 20 rookies out there. That's why we took the inventory that we took the last two years to find out what we had, and find a wave that would land and stay on beach, not be sent back out to the sea.

Paul Lang

Today, people in loss prevention need to have skills in finance, inventory control, accounting. They really need to understand the retail operations thoroughly.

Adam Savage

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Jim Cain

Our inventory is actually less than one per dealer.

Frank Lee

The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.

Steven Wood

Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Arun Sarin

The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan,

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dropping.

David Harris

I realize that the margins are being squeezed, ... We have a plan for that.

James Carrick

The margins story is better than expected. Things are getting better for manufacturers.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Mary Bukovac

We really struggled from the field, especially in the third quarter when we had only two points.

Alex Kellogg

We really stepped it up from the second quarter to the end of the third.

Sammy Willis

We got better every quarter but couldn't get going in the first quarter. We just couldn't make our shots.

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Scott Nelson

Retailers haven't told us they wanted to be down there.

John Longworth

As retailers had feared, the spending surge was short-lived.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

George H. W. Bush

use the third person -- 'they' and 'he' -- and you know who I mean.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Sebastian Coe

We really want the Games, this is our third time trying.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Carrie Brownstein

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

Arsene Wenger

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

Anton Corbijn

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Gaston Gaudio

I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.