Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Nothaft

As a matter of fact, it looks as though 1998 will register the lowest annual mortgage rates in 30 years.

Ron Allen

Our annual 12-goal tournament is a solid second to IPW. The 12-goal tournaments are great for speed and excitement.

Ed Stansfield

Despite the sharp jump in prices, August's data do not change the picture of a strong downward trend in the annual rate of house price inflation,

James Richardson

We are suggesting the factory itself will support 1,527 direct and indirect jobs with an annual impact of $51.5 million.

Dave Schmidt

We found that the combined annual total of bakery food donated to charity was an astonishing 750,000 pounds. And this estimate is actually very low because a lot of the members were unavailable for the survey.

John Hostettler

Within seven weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast, federal taxpayers will have spend 50 percent more than the combined annual budgets of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Klaus Schwab

With great concern and pain, I just learned that Global Agenda, a publication distributed to our members at the Annual Meeting 2006, contains an article calling for a boycott of Israel.

Michael Leavitt

There is no reason for anyone to delay or go without their annual flu shot,

Bill Clarke

Those people at the present time are not being followed up but all of those people probably need to have an annual assessment,

Dean Breest

There are dramatic numbers of adjustments on a seasonal basis going in and out of a tourist destination like Las Vegas.

Claude Mandil

What we decided was in response to a shortage caused by Hurricane Katrina, in a situation where there was lack of spare capacity, which is much more difficult to offset without the reserve release. The prices are a signal, but not the basis for us to decide. We are convinced that they have hurt the economy since last year.

Richard Cripps

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Robert Lang

Are you telling me they're going to do a new urbanist village when the center of the economy is vice? ... Casinos in Mississippi were such a pariah land use that they were not even on land. Now they're going to be the basis of a traditional community?

James Robertson

Even though I'm quite well established, it's not always easy to have a real security of income for the next two to three years. It gives me the freedom to experiment with form and style, and not just write a conventional novel. It gives me the breathing space and the time. They are trusting me on the basis of my track record to produce something of value and quality.

John Shelby Spong

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

Rick Francis

We feel we can play pretty good defense, and any time you play good defense on a consistent basis you're going to be in the game.

Scott Handy

When we started off with Linux six years ago, we promised to invest $1 billion, and now we are getting that investment back on a quarterly basis going forward.

M. Wolfe

People who are on this campus on a day-to-day basis know the campus better than a consultant. It's very important for their input.

Sylvia Pankhurst

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Mark Wigley

Any city that only tries to preserve itself is already dead. The great tragedy would be to embalm New Orleans by simply rebuilding it the way it was.

Steve Carell

It was a lot like Second City in the sense that there was a great freedom to fail there.

Mel Pearlman

This is an issue that will come up in the next generation in Four Corners. In Four Corners, it's going to be particularly difficult to incorporate. Under Florida law, a city has to be in one county, and Four Corners is in the confines of four counties.

Christyne Nicholas

This is a tremendous economic value for New York City, but it's also an incredibly valuable symbolic message and media message that New York City is open for business.

Scott Smith

The University and the city of Tempe negotiated what the University's fair share was of those projects.

Shelli Rushing

We are going to look at potentially sending out the questionnaire with utility bills. That's an option. We'll also try to have something on the city Web site.

Justin Ohlemiller

There are different ways the city could be involved. We've not made any determination in terms of incentives, but ... a large majority of these developments ... there are some types of incentives that are involved.

Tim Joseph

We decided that we need to sit back and wait to see what the city wants before we decide what we'll give them.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Jay Clark

We are out of the eradication mode. There is too much canker. We're in suppression mode, and most of that is going to be done by the grove owner or homeowner.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Every show you'll see here holds such profound meaning for me,

Estella Olguin

We think his name is David, but we don't know. He doesn't talk. He is very clingy. He will not let go of whoever is holding him.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Ron Sisler

When you can hold a team to under a 10-spot every quarter, you're doing the job. I think they understand the concept.

John Williams

The plans have been put on hold for the time being.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

William Henderson

This is the first time and hopefully the last time I'll have to do that.

Lauryn Hill

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

Roy Wilson

If this continues, we set up meetings and they don't show, it is going to take a long, long time.

Caterina Fake

We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Turhan Douglas

We were planning to win. We trained just like we would if we were going to the playoffs.

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Taylor Momsen

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

Sun Tzu

Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Brian Tracy

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Benjamin Disraeli

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.