Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katori Hall

I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

Alex Ferguson

If your form is good in April you have a good chance. If you're stuttering then you can throw it away. We're catching them and hopefully the winning line doesn't come too quickly.

Arthur Andersen

If you are someone who is traveling overseas for at least 14 days that includes April 15 and you are away on business, you get an automatic extension to June 15 to file your return, ... You just have to attach a statement to your return explaining that you were out of the country.

Todd Pratt

In the last seven weeks, the team learned how to be winners. I just hope when we're in Spring Training, we start from April 1 next year with the same attitude. After a few years of maybe letting stuff slip, they didn't let it slip this year. I think they learned you can't say it's early in April anymore.

Stephen Adams

In order to understand what Mandelson did, you have to understand that in April he was being burned in effigy by Italian textiles manufacturers outside the commission building in Brussels.

Terry Madonna

Can you imagine the type of stories we'd see if they do property taxes in April (this year).

Marc Klee

I really do believe it's time to buy and that's sort of a change of position for me. We've always felt that we have to test the bottoms that we've seen. We had a bottom April 4, and another a week ago, Friday. What you're seeing today is probably that test, and I really don't think the market is going any lower - I'm defining the market as the Nasdaq.

Jim Rogers

I'm kind of ready for spring, but it's all relative. I would definitely be depressed if I had to shovel snow. In April I was just happy to get out on the golf course a couple of times and not have the ground frozen.

AJ Pierzynski

I let it grow every winter and get it cut in April or May. I'm too lazy in the off-season to get it cut.

Walt Disney

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time

Peter Cardillo

I think what you're seeing is the process of the market setting a bottom. Obviously, September is living up to its reputation (for volatility), but I think the market will eventually lose its bear grip and focus on the economy and earnings going forward.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Dixie Jones

I was kind of concerned about them because we didn't know much about them. I said before the game I hope we aren't walking into a bear trap. But we jumped on them early and I think that helped.

Drew Altman

We may be looking at the start of a fundamental shift in what we mean by health insurance, from a system where we share risks to one where it's up to individuals to make their own deals and bear their own risks.

Dean Cain

I actually got better grades during football season, when I had no time, because I had to bear down and work a little harder.

Joe Ely

He was not only a great drummer but our favorite person to hang around with. He was this big, lovable bear with tons of great stories.

Millicent Fenwick

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice.

Jimmy Jerkens

I don't know why they did what they did (stewards disqualification). It was clear that he was the better horse. We can work on it (tendency to bear in). He's a lot better today than in his last race. He'll probably be even better when we get him back home to New York. We'll likely point him for the Wood (Memorial). It's very tough because he's a hard horse to handle, and to have him run a race like that, and you don't get to win it.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Shawn Reynolds

Kent pitched a good game. His pitch count started to get high and I didn't want to kill the kid. We talked a little bit before and he was getting a little tired. We can rely on (Weaver) to close it out.

Kaley Cuoco

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

Rick Adelman

Kenny came up huge in the end. He was the guy they were leaving open and he hit that one shot with a little bit of luck, then the second one was dead center and he hit the free throws.

Glenn Mitchell

Kennedy knows how to use traditional poetic forms to give us both joyful and truthful observations about the human condition. His sketches of people and experiences combine playful irreverence with language full of sound and rhythm, and refreshing bites of irony.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent, ... But if he's 95 percent that's good enough. He is feeling good. . . . It's just a matter of at one time locating his fastball and feeling a little bit better.

Mike Gray

Jobs and employers are not increasing their salaries by 21 percent or 16 percent why don't you do us a favor why don't you forgo your salaries so you can feel the bite as much as we do.

Stephen Moore

I talked to people before we started and they seemed a bit demoralized at the performance of the Republican Party.

Chuck Schumer

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

James Lane

Caffeine only temporarily blocks the signals to your brain that let you know you?re tired.

Kevin Kwan

I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge.

Sheila DiNardo

It just sums it all up, of how focused she is as a player. I think when she gets into a game, she blocks everything out, including records or anything like that. She just plays. Definitely, not one of those foul shots bothered her.

Herman Frazier

A lot of times we field calls about the large blocks of tickets that are held by corporations and different people who sometimes don't come to the contests. Now they will be able to put those tickets back into the system.

Bill Sammler

It's not like performing an evacuation before a hurricane. You only want to move inland two or three blocks or get up to the second story of a building.

Jim Phillips

For instance, for every 500 students, we need a new school; for every 700 students, we need a new school. The administration has to provide the direction and we have to determine the perimeters as the starting blocks to those long-range plans.

Shane Carruth

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

Matt Wagner

It was a short one, so I was going to leave it. But I took it and made a few moves and got a few great blocks and took it all the way.

Paul Morse

Sometimes they have options moving outside just two blocks of where they're now located.

Bob Mancini

Kitchener may be the class of our conference. Erie always has a good team. They do a good job of reloading. We'll be playing in two very tough buildings this weekend.

Daniel Kurtzer

I would suggest that we need to focus on killing terrorists instead of building democracies.

Matt Duffy

I talked to a of people and they said your freshman year is a building year.

Bruce Wisan

He wants to come back and start building and I am thrilled with that.

Jerrold Post

He recounted to me that when he first saw the pictures of the bombed-out shells of the building he was really horrified.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

Dick Smith

There is no damage to the buildings. The rooms took an hour to clear and the smell still lingered in the building throughout the afternoon.

Judith Anderson

The purpose of it is to be a community building event.

Jeff Immelt

We're positioned to win in this environment. We've got the company so we can have good operating growth in 2003, ... We're executing on a very strong leadership agenda, transforming the portfolio and building sustainable growth.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

Andy Schultheiss

Representative Cuellar has voted repeatedly to let corporate polluters off the hook.

Shukla Bose

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

Craig Barrett

I know we've seen relatively strong announcements of GDP growth in the U.S., but as far as I can tell, that hasn't translated into corporate profitability or corporate IT investment growth, ... I wish I had something better to tell you.

Sung Sohn

The corporate tax cuts may not have an economic impact until months later.

Junichi Makino

The impact on the economy isn't really that big. The main impact is that of the higher costs on corporate profits.

Winson Fong

The economy is picking up and corporate profitability has recovered.

Barry Hyman

The fourth quarter is going to be volatile and trying, ... I don't think the market has fully discounted all the negatives in front of it, including the hurricanes' impact on the economy, higher energy prices on corporate profits, and higher inflation.

Gary Roberts

Everyone knows New Orleans was a marginal major league market. More and more, the NFL has come to rely on corporate dollars and New Orleans doesn't have a very large corporate base.

Kazunori Jinnai

What we have been seeing today and yesterday is a rather normal correction after the nearly vertical rise in high-tech shares in recent sessions. Investors will be taking refuge in other sectors until high-tech stocks find a floor.

Peter Grandich

Gold's momentum is likely to take it to either side of $600, but then a serious correction is likely to unfold.

Tim Heekin

I think we probably need to take it even lower before the correction that we've been seeing is done.

Mary Farrell

I think what we're seeing is really a normal correction and a very healthy correction in what had been a very overvalued sector, the Internet sector.

Graham Secker

If the market does have a correction, the worst-performing sector in that correction will have been the best-performing sector in the last couple of years.

Jeff Saut

If the pattern plays out, you'll get the first decent downside correction we've seen in a year.

William Adams

The jury is therefore still out as to whether this was just another mini correction or whether more selling will follow. The wider markets are showing some strength, equities are heading higher, mining stocks are showing some strength.

Tsutomu Soma

The dollar's decline was quite fast, particularly last week, so it's very likely we will see a correction upward. Sentiment remains bearish for the dollar, but the currency needs to rebound first.

Chip Hanlon

We're likely to see a sharp and meaningful correction that lasts a few months.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Laura Conigliaro

HP's fundamental earnings power highlights that this is more than just a restructuring story.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Phil Roth

Investors are going to be surprised when we get a string of stronger economic stats. But we might have to get through earnings season before that happens.

Soichiro Monji

In the past, I think there had been low expectations for Kyocera's electronics parts business, so I think investors had gradually started to view it as one of the losers in the tech sector. In that sense, these earnings are a positive surprise.

Ron Lemieux

I would say we've made great gains since 1997, 'the flood of the century', and we've taken many measures to make sure that we are protected as much as we possibly can.

Kathy Walt

We're preparing for potential inland flooding and tornadoes.

Eugene Brezany

In the possibility that there is going to be severe weather, one has to listen to their local jurisdiction with regard to what they would do anyplace else if they were living in a flood plain and if they need to evacuate, they need to evacuate.

Mike Easley

If you were flooded in Isabel and Alex, it's very likely you're going to get flooded in this storm as well, ... But the flooding will be expected, at this point, to be worse now than it was then.

Kris Mangum

I'm just worried about the wind damage. The flooding I am not worried about, at least not at my house.

John Artinger

Their strength is inside. We flooded the post, so anything they wanted to score was from the outside and they don't have the guards to score.

Eric Cunningham

A lot were totally destroyed, ... Some were flooded and wind-damaged, so they had something to work with.

Mike Easley

These floods are going to be worse than anticipated yesterday.

Forrest Pearson

Once I was by myself they totally flooded me. They started pushing me and stuff.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

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.

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,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Mark Pervan

It had a pretty strong run, so the market is taking profits.

William LeFevre

I think this market is going to go a lot higher.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Andrea Williams

It's incrementally positive. ... It's not a negative but does it open up a new opportunity? I'm not sure it does that.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

James McNerney

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

Alan Ackerman

The tech news exacerbates an already negative feeling,

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Patrick Stump

We wanted out of it. It was the most negative thing in the world.

Chuck Hill

Every quarter, people get all upset when the pre-announcement season is on and it always has a negative bias. I don't think there is anything to be alarmed about.

Nikki Reed

If I ever find myself overwhelmed, it's only because I am overwhelmed by how much more I want to learn. That is what drives me.

John R. Allen

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

David Smith

They are overestimating the anti-gay sentiment in their own organization and the country.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.