Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Antony Beevor

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

Jeffrey Benton

The breadth was much better today than yesterday and I think that's a pretty encouraging sign. More stocks were participating and I think at least a portion of the rally is going to carry on Monday morning. But what I'd like to see is stocks up another 100 on Monday on decent volume and then be able to hold at that level. I'd like to see the Dow above 8,000.

Tatsuo Kageyama

A weaker yen, and platinum futures prices trading above Yen 4,000/g, made the commodity 'very safe' to invest, in addition to the bullish sentiment felt across the metal futures complex with speculative funds.

John Polson

Australians love to pump you up when you're nobody. Then, when you start to put your head above water and say, 'Well, actually, I am a bit different, I am an individual and I do have a particular talent', or whatever, they want to go after you. But the good news is that once you reach a certain level, I think they start to leave you alone.

Alvin Anderson

Avalanche danger is something to consider. That's only an issue when there are steep slopes above you or when you're in a chute.

Gail Dudack

A typical economic recovery will see job growth north of 220,000 new jobs a month. And we've had very few months above that level. So, this job market looks stable, but not robust, and that is what will put restraint on the Fed in 2006.

Thomas Sullivan

A threshold question is whether -- if the president is not above the law, as he should not be, is he to be treated as below the law? ... Is he to be singled out for prosecution because of his office in a case in which, were he a private citizen, no prosecution would result?

Mindy Hanson

Athletic trainers are very important to any athletic team. They are very important to our team to make sure the players are healthy and to help them be the best they can be. The people on our athletic training department go above and beyond any expectation.

Cecil Frank Powell

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Bible Bible

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

Arthur Doyle

Is it not? Is it not? Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.

Peter Greene

That's why you get this blas? effect, ... The breadth is flat so it's really one of those days where it's not really exciting.

Chuck D.

To me a broad-base rally is what you need right now. Breadth like this is good because it means people are willing to put money into a variety of stocks.

Terry Hall

We are determined to keep our Texas freeways free. These highways have already been paid for by our tax dollars. If they try to make us pay toll on it, it is nothing short of double taxation. I think the number of people we have reached and gotten involved is a testament to the depth and breadth of this issue.

Bible Bible

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; / Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

Auggie Tantillo

China's proposal is still unacceptable to the US textile industry in terms of breadth of coverage and in length -- number of years covered.

Bill Zollars

Simply put, the breadth and depth of the enterprise is greater than the name Yellow Roadway conveys. We now operate in over 70 countries around the world and our services have expanded to encompass logistics as well as global, national and regional transportation. Our new name, YRC Worldwide, better reflects the reality of what our enterprise is today. Our aspirations for the future remain consistent with our core purpose: Making global commerce work by connecting people, places and information.

Ed Dunlop

As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up.

Scott Jordan

As people carry multiple gadgets, you're going to see more clothing makers thinking about how to serve that market. There's more consciousness now about what people are carrying, as well as what they're wearing.

Pat Bowlin

Our defense is really coming on. That's going to carry us in the playoffs.

Safaa Ibrahim

People are using (Islam) to carry out some of the frustrations that they have. But this is not just about the defamation of Muhammad. Each Muslim is feeling like it's saying 'You're a terrorist. ...' So you're defaming my character as well.

Thomas Carter

On top of winning, it's pretty exciting to be in the middle of the points chase this early in the season. We just hope to stay consistent and carry this momentum into Grand Bend.

Pete Asadourian

Defense got us here and defense is going to carry us through. We've been emphasizing defense since December 1.

Glenn Thomas

The thing people need to realize is that there is a carry over from year to year in utility money. This year there is a carry over of more than $1.5 million.

Bob Freschi

The older guys are going to carry this team. They don't give me much drama. We'll see if it translates to wins and losses.

Juan Somavia

No worker should be imprisoned or penalized for carrying out legitimate trade union activities,

Chad Campbell

As far as hanging out, not really. But we always talk to each other on the range. Sometimes we play practice rounds. You know, (we're) decent friends.

Mick Durham

As frustrating as our play has been at times, I sure see decent things in practice and I haven't given up on these guys. This is the time of year ? forget about what's happened in the past. These next two or three weeks is when you want to be playing good.

Phyllis Schlafly

As our government takes democracy to unlikely places all over the world, how about a decent respect for self-government at home!

John Izzo

On the whole, I am pleased with the progress so far. We are in pretty decent mid-season form.

Ned Yost

Even though we've been struggling, I think we have a decent lineup. I think we will score some runs. Maybe today is a start for us.

Danny Murphy

You can make a very decent living at this. It's hard work, but it's OK. And you get to see a lot of different states.

Tony Mowbray

We've had a decent start to the season and now we must push on,

Jeff McCracken

We've had some fairly decent years recently. It looks like another decent year for many of our users." ()

David Howell

As I showed in the Masters, if I play decent golf I am going to do well.

Ed Perlmutter

This is a personal issue because it holds out hope for a lot of people.

Mary McCarty

The way this thing is playing out, Commissioner Addie Greene holds this thing in her hands.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Kris Grawitch

We're holding a pre-construction open house so people can see what we don't have.

Joe Biden

Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it - I have no savings accounts.

John Ashcroft

And we seek to hold them as suspected terrorists,

Matthew Peterson

Fixed-income returns, after taxes and inflation, tend to be very low, ... If you're under 45, I'm not sure you should even hold bonds.

Trevor Linden

Bettman and the owners hold the key to getting the season under way.

Robert Kerr

Be smart, not scared. If they do the scared thing and someone grabs hold of them, then they'll kick and hit, and it won't get them anywhere.

Argus Hamilton

The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

Darrell Waltrip

We usually couldn't do it on Sunday. We had to wait until Monday because were about ready to kill each other.

Mike Bianchi

What is Monday the day the recycle bins are picked up at Isleworth?

John Whiting

We will be in the talks process on Monday morning,

Holly Hatton

We're going to be racing Monday and Tuesday to regroup. We have to get past this big letdown this weekend.

Amy Poehler

President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'

Amy Poehler

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

Amy Poehler

Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

Aldous Huxley

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Dick Franti

They shot rally well in the second half.

David Briggs

This recent rally may have legs, but we're still on a downtrend.

Kate Warne

We wouldn't have seen such a strong rally if we hadn't seen most of it in Nortel.

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.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Carroll Shelby

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

Janis Joplin

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

Deniece Schofield

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

Edward R. Murrow

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

Edward Abbey

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Elizabeth Edwards

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Dave Mustaine

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

Amy Weber

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

Alexander Hamilton

It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone.