Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Wood

As long as average job creation remains around or exceeds 200,000 and the unemployment rate continues to decline, the FOMC will continue to raise interest rates.

Aleksandr Lebed

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

Bobby Cox

Ramirez has been pitching well. But he kept walking Pena with Dunn behind him. Dunn hasn't hit left-handers for a high average this year, but he's dangerous. He hit two rockets off (Ramirez).

Fernando Meirelles

Ralph deserves an award for this performance. He's so relaxed, so natural. We're used to seeing Ralph Fiennes as cold, rational. Here he's lighter. He brings a humanity to the role. He's played a lot of edgy characters. Here he plays an average character.

Greg Raymer

really did a lot to boost the popularity of the game. Viewers immediately liked Moneymaker a down-home boy from Tennessee and average players everywhere could identify with him. He's not flashy or fancy. He's a good guy who's not full of himself.

Hank Fishkind

Prices on average will flatten. Some niches, like condos, might see a reduction. But we're not going to see anything that's inconsistent with what Florida has experienced in the past.

Kenny Tang

Property stocks sprang to life after falling about 10 percent on average over the past six months as rising interest rates dampened property market sentiment.

Robert Mercer

Programming fees have significantly outpaced the average increase of a DirecTV customer's bill.

Carlos Gutierrez

Our economy is growing, and the average take-home pay per American is increasing.

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Jay Stewart

The system can't work when you don't have full disclosure.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Joseph Hall

Some students got four-year scholarships and others got full tuition scholarships.

Maria Semple

Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.

Houston Nutt

Once you think you've got one play stopped, here they go with something else. ... They've got the full package, ... That's the thing that you notice.

P. J. Harvey

I want a full and thorough investigation of this, and then we will issue the report publicly, ... We want to be transparent about this, and we are cooperating fully with the NCAA.

Ahmad Fawzi

So now we have a road map. It's an important first step toward the establishment of a fully representative, broader-based, gender-sensitive, multi-ethnic government down the line.

Pat Roberts

Sooner or later they're going to have to be released. They'll come out piecemeal or you can have full transparency and get it over with.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Timothy Robishaw

First, we spent hundreds of hours since January 2003 trying to characterize how the telescope responds to radio waves.

Vic Mignogna

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

Arthur Smith

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

Wit Ostrenko

We've had more people come in the first two hours than we did all week.

Rosann Sanders

We'll have to have summer hours year round.

Martin Freeman

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

Josie Bissett

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.

Bruce Tonjes

The staff may be talented enough to do the job. They may need different materials . . .

David Hare

The silence between us was profound. I thought it was his job to say something. Only now do I understand it was mine.

Jeff Greene

I've been a job creator. I've worked in the economy myself.

Owen McClain

I use to look for a perfect job. Now I look for any job and make it perfect for me.

Natalie Cole

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

Pat Ryan

I wanted someone who, that was their job, and they'd be reliable.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Brandon Sanderson

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Brian Sandoval

I worked my way through law school.

Brendan Fehr

I never liked group work in school.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.