Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tiger Woods

He's been the benchmark for every player that's ever played the game, at least in my generation.

Tony Floor

I think this year was a benchmark in negotiations between the state and tribes. Everything went smoothly compared to past history.

Paul Kirk

I will be a good benchmark for us. I have shuffled the deck and this game should give us a good idea of where we are,

Jackson Wong

I don't expect the market to have sharp movement today, with the benchmark index likely to hover within a range of 100 points.

Scott Evans

If you look at the lead we've built up this year versus the benchmark and our peers, it came during the period when tech stocks were undergoing a sell-off, ... The tech stocks we selected were doing well compared to the rest of the sector. They held their ground.

Patrick Sweeney

This benchmark was designed with the input of a dozen or so partners.

Jackson Wong

Follow-through interest in select blue chips and China-related stocks drove the benchmark index up. Funds kept chasing these stocks after the market broke through the 16,000 points level.

Paul Dergarabedian

There seems to be a new benchmark in terms of what we call a blockbuster, ... This year, by the end of the year, we'll wind up with about 17 films over $100 million. But the key to this year's success is that we have five films that have gone beyond $200 million. That's never happened before.

Ronald Walters

These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.

John Mayall

I think initially people like Johnny Lang, they seemed to be a novelty at the time but nowadays there are so many blues guitarists.

Chris Young

He could start for any team in the Blue Ridge, River Ridge or Seminole that I've seen.

Don Lucia

He'll also get some time on the blue line.

Cindy Sheehan

greeted with overwhelming support, in blue (Democratic) states and in red (Republican) states.

Alan Skrainka

What you have going on in this market is a flight to quality, which is the blue chips, as tech stocks are priced to perfection.

Aaron Hill

I think we had more Blue Jays fans than Yankees fans. I think we can compete with everybody.

David Johansen

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

John Pistole

I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.

Jay Taylor

I am doing it because it is my passion. There is something about bluegrass that is kind of down to earth. The people that you meet are just friendly, down-to-earth people. That is the main reason why I decided to do it.

Michael Roach

Katrina and oil prices are simply the straw that broke the camel's back. Delta was going to file anyway. And Northwest was playing chicken with its unions. It seems to me they didn't do nearly enough and waited much too long. They thought they could just ride it out. But the rise in oil prices upset everyone's plans.

Estee Martin

It broke my heart. I literally went home and cried.

Diane Perlov

It broke all records at the science center, and I think the Tutankhamen exhibit was the only exhibit in L.A. that had more people - we've never seen anything like it.

Danny Ferry

He wanted to play the rest of this season with a broken finger. The doctors said no, that they wanted this taken care of.

Dustin Villepigue

He just took it totally the wrong way and threw a cheap shot. I'm surprised he did it. Luckily, I saw him throw the punch, or I would have had some broken bones.

John Adams

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Steve Chester

Her nose is broken in two places. She may be out for the season, and she said that hurts more than the nose. She was just starting to play well.

Chuck Hill

I think the analysts will now exclude more stuff than they would have otherwise. If I'm faced with all or none, I'm going to say all. If it's broken out, I'm going to be more reluctant to exclude the indirect costs.

Whitney Spence

We totally broke down. I didn't expect that ending at halftime when we were rolling ---- or going into the third period, either.

Drew Houston

When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.

Brian Hill

He's doing more than he's ever had to really do before, in terms of thinking about the game and playing all the parts of the game. And to combine that with chasing down every rebound, that's a credit to him that he's able to keep that pace.

Frank Beamer

I hope Marcus is going to like it Sunday night. This is one you better be ready to play, you're going to have a defense chasing you. He better be ready to go.

Paul Lambert

The first half was not good enough, and that is what cost them the game. They know they fell short themselves, and we were chasing it after that.

Tom Glavine

The difference this year, ... he doesn't seem like he's chasing as much. He just seems a little more patient, waiting to get the pitch he's waiting for. Obviously, a lot of times when he's getting it, he's not missing it.

Bill Self

You've got a guy chasing the all-time win record, and you'd think you'd want to be there to say you were a part of it.

The Bride

You've been chasing me your entire life, only to fail now. I think that's the worst thing I've ever heard; how marvelous.

Brian Golub

The game was 100 percent their way. Then we switched out of a man and played a 2-2-1 press. Then we went to a zone to stop chasing them a little bit, because they don't dribble the ball. It's just incredible the way they do their thing.

Gary Hubbell

These guys going off the trail, seeking to get deeper into the backcountry and being lazy about it, disturb elk habitat. It makes a miserable experience for everyone, ... Starting your hike in the dark is absurd, because you're chasing elk out. You want to be walking into elk country when you can see them in your scope. There's no need to start walking until a minimum of 15 minutes before you can shoot.

Scott Radeker

I thought our effort, when the chips were down, was 10 times better this year than last year. In the end, they made a few more plays than we did.

Nathan Brookwood

CMOS allows high-density chips the size of a postage stamp to be cooled without exotic techniques. Without low-power CMOS technology, microprocessors would run so hot that they would literally melt.

Terrence McGee

The chips finally fell our way. Mental errors have plagued us all season and have taken us out of games. We finally made big plays we needed to finish the game.

Arthur Guiterman

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

Helen Hudson

Some shrugged their shoulders as if to shake off whatever chips of responsibility might have lodged there.

Doug Henton

Ten years ago, this was an engineering Valley that pumped out chips and computers. Now it's all about creative tech and staying on the cutting edge.

Kris Cox

Sometimes, it's your turn. This is phenomenal. I played pretty well all week and was able to make two pretty good chips there at the end.

Joe Bline

Every day you play in the tournament, you have to play extremely hard or you'll be done. Last year Ready taught us that. We have to coach harder, the kids have to play harder and let the chips fall where they may. You can't take a night off in the tournament.

Regina Brett

I still miss my gramma. I can see her at the farm, in her apron, babushka and support stockings. My Slovak gramma spoiled us with pig in the blankets, kalachi, pop, chips and a drawer full of lollipops. It was heaven.

Bashir Ahmed

What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out.

William Johnson

What drove him into politics was indignation, outrage.

Michael Cuddyer

I was able to sit back on it, had a good swing and drove it over the fence.

Tiger Woods

He drove it so good it was a joke. He played solid. He should take a lot of positives from it. John should take a lot out of this week. He played well.

Dave Meier

The 'Hall of Fame' says a lot that the trucks are famous and the people that drove them are famous, ... We want to highlight some people who have done some incredible things.

George Roosevelt

About 20 minutes later, the suspects drove by and took one shot at them.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Republicans won the women's vote in 2010. It was the first time since Ronald Reagan that the Republicans had won the women's vote. And when you look at the issues that really drove women to the Republican Party, it's been the issues related to the economy, to jobs, the debt.

Steve Dixon

When he drove there, he went up to the house, spent 12, 13 minutes in the house when no one was home,

Jimmy Johnson

When I drove by I was shocked to see the line so big, ... It's overwhelming.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Jim Leach

I think we have the funds now for all of it.

Angus MacMillan

There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

Kunal Kapoor

In the past, these were growth funds in name only.

Christopher Sullivan

I remember telling him if you're going to move funds around you better see if it was done in the past to see if (former treasurer Ron Graves) had done it, ... But it's just not something I would do for Ron or Bill, to authorize the use of funds.

Paul Gada

The machine moves slowly, but the IRS has more funds and is increasing its enforcement activity.

Dominic Konstam

They have to tread carefully, they don't need to raise rates so they become restrictive as there is no inflation, so they are fumbling for a neutral funds rate.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

George Burley

It can have a snowball effect. With the national side doing well there is more interest in the game, which is great.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Dick Miller

I think it's going to go very well. She's an outstanding talent and a lot of interest has been shown.

Robert Baker

I thought we were interested in saving time.

Lenora Fulani

he voiced his disagreement with me, and then kept right on going.

Robert Russell

He just kept me prepared. I was ready for anything to happen.

Tony Danza

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Eddie Jordan

He's kept working on it -- and he's still got a way to go, but it's coming. It's a work in process, but he's willing to work hard.

Tom Martin

He's kept to his priorities, which is religion, God.

Ralph Edwards

His third-grade teacher said he knew every rock and rill in the Rockies. And he said, 'Yeah, and I knew every saloon, too,' ... The rating kept going up during the show as people called their friends to tune in.

S. Walker

I think that her name made the magazine stronger. That's why they kept it,

Aaron Cook

I went after them with my sinker and mixed in some sliders and changeups. I kept them off balance.

Stuart Creason

I didn't really see what happened, but some people said Stephan was fouled. Really, we should have never been in that position in the first place if we had kept our turnovers down.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Larry Wachtel

I think the market has done quite well in what is supposed to be the worst month of the year, but at some point you're going to run into an overbought condition,

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Scott Ashley

I want to win. If I have to score 50 points to win, I'll do that.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Dale Jr

I'm really disappointed running like this. I'm surprised it's been this way most of the year, but now we have to go out and try to win races. We quit worrying about points a long time ago.

Roberto Orci

You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.

Tramain Hall

All of a sudden they took the points off the board, ... It was like, 'Are you serious?'

Adam Morris

I've got to put on some more points and more yardage,

Ike Taylor

They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Michael Holland

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