Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic.

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.

If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

Scott Wilson

We considered Mr. Scott a dangerous fugitive. He was wanted for rape and kidnapping and for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

Lee Perry

When people drive, they can avoid following too close by not speeding, and eliminating distractions such as phone calls, eating and putting on makeup,

Jeff Sells

We would like to try to keep as many as possible in order to avoid construction costs. You would have to buy into the fact that classroom size would vary somewhat, but it sure can save a lot of money.

Ramsey Clark

What incredible insanity is driving us to hold this child, to glorify the grossness of our materialism as if you can buy the soul of a child,

Robert Stein

What I'm seeing is that confidence in the Japanese economy is starting to gain. And as people get more comfortable investing in Japanese equities and other Japanese assets, they need to buy yen. And as they buy these yen, the dollar goes down.

Marc Benioff

What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications?

Lindsay Fox

One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck.

Barney Frank

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.

Robert Kiyosaki

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Jason Napodano

The quarter was OK but I see no reason to buy the stock,

Jane Smith

Those are things that are very hard for us to buy as pantries. We cannot pay a dollar for a can of tuna for one family. That'd be good for one person, but we have a lot of eight- and 10-people families. You think how far one can of tuna would go. Not very far.

Mike Sackett

We are hoping to buy maize this year from within Zambia and Malawi -- to feed vulnerable people inside those countries.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Rachel Laws

Regardless of the fact that it's Senior Day, we have to win our last home game because we haven't been winning lately and we really want to stop this streak.

Katsuya Okada

Our policies weren't wrong, but I have to reflect on the fact they did not get across.

Jim Mott

Part of it is losing to Herkimer and part is the fact that we're 1-3 now and really need a quality win. Hopefully the kids are mad and will come back ready to work tomorrow.

Michael Lynton

Part of this is the fact that the movies may not have lived up to the expectations of the audience, not just in this year, but in years prior,

Mark Shapiro

Part of what makes Peralta even more valuable to us is the fact that he plays up the middle.

Matt Hayes

In the playoffs it comes down to the fact you have to keep scoring runs. We have to stay hot with our offense and make our at-bats count.

Mark Vitner

In the past, that (increase in work week) has pointed to fact we'll see strong job growth in next few months.

Derek Fisher

In the past it's come up maybe in the middle of the year, after we'd lost some games, or been frustrated. The fact that we haven't played a regular-season game yet makes it different.

Chuck Reed

We need those officers. We pay them well in order to keep them, and that's why they got raises.

Kathleen Huddy

Unfortunately, over the years, manufacturers and retailers, in order to sell more sheets, have pushed thread count.

Thomas Browne

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Robert A. Heinlein

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Mark Parker

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

Joan Didion

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.

Jimi Hendrix

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Jimi Hendrix

A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

John McCain

The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.