Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Jeffrey Silber

The staffing sector is notorious for its lack of visibility. Today's sell-off is an overreaction, exacerbated by the lack of a conference call on this news and its timing during the holiday season.

Scott Ishikawa

The supervisor who made the call has not been reassigned. He has been disciplined and it will go on his record. They felt it was an unintentional mistake and they felt he wasn't profiting from this.

Paul Graham

The Summer Founders Program fixes the common problem with working at a startup, which is that it's very lonely. You do nothing but work and sleep and no one understands the situation you are in, and friends don't know why it takes three days for you to call them back.

Robert Mitchell

The spacecraft has been programmed to continue even in the event of an emergency. We don't want Cassini to call home if a problem arises, we want it to keep going.

Julie Tanner

The thing we were doing with our initial visits was to call on retailers who don't have policies to create one.

Paul Elliott

As a team, I think we're right where want to be (entering the conference schedule). I'm happy with our effort so far.

Jamie Dixon

Our conference has prepared us better than any other conference since I've been around the Big East. I'm not surprised how it has played out because of how many good teams there are here.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Bill Fennelly

It would be a phenomenal upset for us to go real deep in this tournament. The conference tournaments were created to make money and give teams hope. The Big 12 can make the money, and we'll have the hope.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Joe Dumars

That's what we all have to live with, because we've set a very high standard here. We've been at least to the conference finals three straight years and we've been a 50-win team four years in a row.

Britt Bonneau

We've still got a lot of conference play to go. We've won five out of the last six, though, and the good thing is that eight of our last 12 conference games are at home. But this one? Yeah, this one's a big one for sure.

Sue Johnson

There is no doubt in my mind that Ray would be the top player in the conference if she were healthy. But she?s giving us great minutes when she?s out there.

Scott Wofford

Ever since we put ourselves back in the hunt for first place, we've been playing like we've got something to prove. Each game, we've been playing harder and we finally get to feel what it's like to be conference champions.

Wayne Best

The strong spending volume Visa is experiencing, and the trends we've seen leading up to Thanksgiving, bode well for merchants this holiday season.

Steve Kernkraut

Thanksgiving weekend was strong and that lifted a lot of the retailers' results. I think they have momentum going into the holiday season.

Howard Morley

Sales are starting to get back up there after the holiday period and prices show no real sign of weakness.

E. B. White

This isn't going to be judged on whether we sell a lot of tops over the Web for the holiday season,

Diane Cilento

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Deepak Chopra

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

Dominic Monaghan

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

Patrick Byrne

We've had a nice holiday season, just not as nice a season as we've had in the past or as I'd hoped for.

Sharon Smith

Everything we have will still be rustic. It?s not going to be the Holiday Inn, but it won?t be as primitive.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Godfrey Reggio

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Daniel Schorr

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Clay Shirky

There is no news industry.

Stephen Harper

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

Caroline Sunshine

I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters.

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Garry South

The timing was not accidental. There's more to come.

Bill Swain

The timing of this weather is a little unfortunate.

Stuart Sternberg

The timing is not as important as getting the right people.

Michael Parkinson

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

Chauncey Billups

I wish the timing was a little different.

Erin Morgenstern

Timing is a sensitive thing.

Warren Buffett

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

Joyce Meyer

The right timing is not always our timing.

Edward Boyden

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.