Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorenzo Codogno

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Kelly Preston

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Mark Hansen

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Marc Rotenberg

Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come.

Flannery O'Connor

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Rob Reiner

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

Ronda Rousey

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

David Irons

I'm just trying to get in the swing of things and learn the new system. It's not what we did last year, so it's real confusing at times.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Joe Banner

Normally I'd say the player is not likely to just pass up getting paid. But in this case, you really can't say. This isn't a very predictable situation.

Susan Meyer

The more options we are able to offer people, the more likely they are to use one of them.

Tom Dorsa

The suspect was most likely in the passenger seat of the vehicle at the time.

John Pescatore

AES will likely not replace more than 30 percent of DES operations before 2004,

Laura Bush

The old Medicare was a system stuck in the past and we need to worry about the young workers that are putting money into the future, ... The more options available, the more likely you are going to get what you want.

Kyle Cooper

The weather remains the primary driver. Until the weather moderates, prices will likely remain robust.

Jason Schenker

At this point, at these prices we're not likely to see a cut. Politically that is not feasible.

Peter Morici

This situation is likely to become worse in the months ahead.

Sam Buttrick

We think it's been done in such a way that it's likely to stick.

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Aaron Woods

Once we lost our steam supply, we were unable to recover and prevent the event that occurred on Wednesday, March 1.

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Christopher Davis

It wouldn't be catastrophic if they lost it.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Willie Gary

Your name is all you've got. People can take away a lot of things, but if they take your name away, you're ruined. That's what they tried to do.

Randy Ferreira

You name the pie and we do it. They are all made from scratch.

Richard Beck

You name it and we're going to do it.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

James Van Der Beek

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Jane Smiley

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

John Wilson

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Stephane Dion

People who have sent their delegates here want real progress, ... That's why here in Montreal, we have to get results.

Lucy Mathiak

People who feel that things are going well will vote for Juan.

Raf Simons

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Bobbi Brown

People used to look out for their brothers. I'm going to look out for James.

Jay Stewart

People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.

Paul Adams

People understand it's a robust role and they're comfortable with it. But we're not suggesting it (support for the mission) is so strong it can't be moved.

Josh Fox

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

Christine Baranski

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Louise Nurding

All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.

Steve Mills

It's not the preferred style for enterprise-class operation.

Jonathan Boyd

They prefer training that's realistic. Any time we can make it more realistic, they like it.

Kent Houser

They really seem to pressure the ball, so we should be able to run our stuff. Though if we shoot like we did on Tuesday, I think we prefer they play zone.

David Baker

We prefer to do that in a non-public session.

Bud Grebey

Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.

Conor Oberst

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

Peter Doust

We would all prefer for this to be resolved sooner rather than later.

Jim Yong Kim

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Arthur C. Clarke

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Wang Jianlin

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Eckhart Tolle

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Britney Spears

I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Samuel Liles

We're a small congregation, but we're not going to let this turn us around.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Ricky Gutierrez

There is already mold, ... There was one small window broken.

Andrew Rannells

I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

Slavoj Zizek

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Lance Henriksen

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Arthur Hardy

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.