Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Garret Anderson

In years past, we had a balance of guys who swing the bat and take walks. This team was a little more free-swinging and you're going to go through phases like that where everybody is not hitting at one time. That's reality.

Alan Greenspan

The Federal Reserve has responded to the balance of market forces by gradually raising the federal funds rate over the past year, ... Certainly, to have done otherwise -- to have held the federal funds rate at last year's level even as credit demands and market interest rates rose -- would have required an inappropriately inflationary expansion of liquidity.

Stewart Schwartz

You could use the Transfer of Density Rights tool to balance mixed-use and open space.

Anthony Chan

These numbers are essentially telling us that retail sales were artificially boosted by zero-percent financing. These numbers are not going to do anything to discourage the Fed from thinking that the balance of risk in the economy is toward weakness.

Bill Lockyer

a careful balance that maintains the common understanding of marriage as between a man and a woman, while at the same time declaring that registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections and benefits as spouses.

Neville Isdell

We have a long way to go in mastering that art, ... As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be stopped in the middle so we have a proper balance between volume and price.

Dave Miller

We have a good balance of aeronautical and non-aeronautical businesses.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Elton Brand

I expect a hard-fought series from Denver. We got home-court advantage, and that should help. The Nuggets are a tough club, and so is Dallas. I felt that we matched up well with either.

Kim Il

I was shocked when I heard my uncle, Soo Jo, was looking for me. I didn't expect him to be alive,

Frank Gillett

I would expect this to be primarily about experimentation.

Robert Long

I would expect a strong payrolls number Friday, and for the market to have some sort of positive response to it, even if it's just very short-term.

Emily Watson

She says she hangs on to the voice even after we've left the studio, so expect an, 'I'm having a jolly good time' from her on the red carpet.

Melinda Fischer

She has really been able to guide them through some things and been very patient. You can't expect somebody who's never been in our program to come in and get it right away. They're going to keep getting it all the way through the season. She's been real patient and been a good leader.

Patty Schnyder

I didn't know what to expect and I was very happy. They were there for me.

Jay Bryson

Most people expect that the Fed will hike short-term rates more than the 10-year (yield) will go up this year.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Michael Allen

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that? All they needed was a jump-start.

Kathleen Tierney

More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island; there was nowhere to go. They didn't know when help was going to come. Law enforcement was rendered ineffective. They didn't know when they'd see another meal.

Paul Lanclos

I wish he'd stick to the script more. But when you have that type of athlete, nine out of 10 times when he does things like that he's going to help you.

Brian Seymore

I thought we needed to do a little better job tackling. But we'll get better from this game. It'll help us.

Frank Beamer

I think we've got to help him out some, sometimes with formations and sometimes with backs, ... Whether it's Duane or someone else, you've got to give them some help.

James Vilade

I think a lot of our pitchers settled in this weekend. We threw a lot of strikes and hit where we were supposed to this weekend and that will always help your defense.

Judy Cornett

I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.

Michael Schroeder

Unlike a lot of retailers, they are somewhat limited in what they can offer. I just don't think they are ever going to make much money on their retail stores.

Roger Lewis

With a passive tag, the transmissions are limited as the only signal comes from a transmitter/receiver and tend to be spasmodic.

Scott Draper

This will be a first-come-first-serve procedure. We have only a limited number of slots available.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Dolores Huerta

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.