Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Shim

As computer users become more mobile, you widen the liability and the risk. Notebook computer makers have to offer these features because corporate clients are asking for them.

Yvonne Hester

As a part of the requirement by the city, we are asking the developer to construct an open channel following our master drainage plan.

Scott Price

As a community, we're asking for reasonable support marching toward the future.

John Paxson

The bottom line, ... is if Eddy had not had any incident and a doctor hadn't suggested it, we wouldn't be asking for it.

Ralph Krueger

A very special day for Swiss ice hockey and a very special day for this group of individuals that believed this was possible and never stopped believing. Beginning with The Wall in net, Martin Gerber , unbelievable penalty killing, and a lot of courage from players who just a few years ago were asking for autographs from the players they faced today.

Larry Woolsey

A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we ordered them up special for them.

Jeremy Aguero

Average asking rates jumped 8 percent the past 12 months. And increases during the coming year are anticipated to be in the 8 to 12 percent range due to stable demand and rising development costs.

Drew Busby

At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.

Barbara Cartland

A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Jason Young

A service like www.concerttickets.com is greatly needed. It can be challenging for the average person to know if a ticket is real or fake. By using this service and a credit card with a licensed ticket broker you are significantly more safe and secure in purchasing tickets in the secondary marketplace.

Henry Smith

As bad as it's been the last few months, just being average wouldn't be bad at all.

Joerg Kraemer

As a result, we expect that the German economy will continue to grow by a mere 1 percent on average in the years to come, ... the German election results lower the pressure on other European countries to implement major economic reforms.

Reed Hundt

As a result of this order and the WTO agreement, we predict that the average price of an international call will drop from 88 cents today to 20 cents five years from now,

Seamus McAteer

As all carriers more aggressively promote subscription-based models, they are also testing price inelasticity by gradually inching up average pricing. To grow the market, carriers must work in tandem with publishers to provide real value for a more expensive subscription, rather than treating it as just another pricing tactic.

Brad Soderberg

The bottom line is, we didn't make shots. It's just disappointing that we played as well as we did defensively, and yet it's a 10-point loss. And we missed free throws. It's just not good enough if you want to beat good teams. You've got to play complete basketball, not just defend, not just rebound, it's got to be complete. We're either going to get it or we're going to continue to be a .500 team. We're either going to figure it out or remain an average program.

Tim Finchem

The bottom line is, we can challenge the players much more effectively with much more firm and fast conditions. As a matter of fact, in the studies we've done over the last 10 years, the difference between a generally soft course and a firm and fast golf course is an average of five shots in the winning score and about the same in terms of the overall scoring average.

Zhou Ji

The breakthrough of the key resistance of the one-year moving average delivers a positive signal to the market and could mean further gains in coming days.

Federico Estevez

Average wages in Mexico will eventually rise enough to hold people here. It will take time. But huge labor migrations have been stopped before by economic opportunities. Look at Portugal and Spain.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Salomon Torres

The momentum of the game, I liked it, ... Because even though we were losing, it was coming in our favor. The guys never stopped fighting.

Condoleezza Rice

The moment of truth is coming here, ... and it's time for the co-sponsors to get together and discuss it.

Ronnie Wood

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

Tim Bajarin

Dell is notorious for taking a wait-and-see approach, and then, if something catches on, coming in and dominating it.

Robert Jones

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

Yusli Yusoff

As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producers and palm oil is the world's most traded vegetable oil.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Tom Bentz

Demand is snapping right back. Even with the high prices, there hasn't been that big an impact on demand.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Ben Wood

Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

Kevin Logan

Prices played a big role here. A lot of the increase was due to higher energy prices, particularly for oil.

Ellen Russell

Our environmental standards will look at the impacts that will accrue in the U.S. due to the power lines and due to the plant operating in Mexico.

Tom Maier

Our fall in the last two weeks is due to several injuries and if we hadn't had them we might have fared better. But those are all part of the game.

Brian Billick

Anthony Wright is the starter for an undetermined period right now due to injury. Kyle Boller is our starting quarterback. If I left it open to interpretation, if I left that in a way that led to speculation that we did not have the faith in Kyle, that our faith is wavering, that was not my intent.

Kevin Kerr

The sell-off is due to all the locals grabbing profits before the end of the day, nothing more.

Peter Cardillo

The selling in financials is an anticipation of lower earnings due to a slower economy, ... From the point of view of interest rates not going up, it's positive.

Charles Corp

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enhance its systems capacity.

James Lago

Technically, these stocks are due for a rebound after being oversold last month.

Bill Rodgers

Sometimes such an injury may be due to increased running, fatigue, sickness, etc and have nothing at all to do with your shoe.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Dave McGillivray

No runner will be at a disadvantage over past participants and most will reap significant benefits.

Flip Saunders

Antonio's been playing like that for the past month. He's been playing phenomenal.

Tim Priest

The old school of police of the past has been replaced with academics, who haven't the stomach.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Richard Lugar

Russians in the past had placed severe limitations on inspections at these storage sites, so this is a significant breakthrough,

Tae Kim

I spent the past 22 years in tears, and I had no hope,

Marit Bjorgen

I've been skiing too many races this past week.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Ethan McAfee

The stock is going to go up 5 to 10 percent the first day. It's not going to go up 50 percent or more.

Dominic James

I spend 85 percent of my day right here (McGuire Center). I don't get back to my room until 10:30 or 11.

David Fischer

That's where it all starts. I'm 100 percent positive that's where your excelling comes from.

Bob Bowman

You're ruining my life! I'm spending 90 percent of my time at the pool.

Ron Wilson

You wait for somebody like that to mature. He's still not there to my satisfaction defensively 100 percent all of the time, but he's getting closer.

Richard Valdez

You remember 20 percent of what you hear, 75 percent of what you see and 90 percent of what you do.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Danny Sullivan

I don't really have a range of what it would be it's all over the place.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Tamara Tunie

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mike Jackson

well within the range of what is realistically possible.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

William Reinsch

A year from now we're all going to be embarrassed by this.

Wade Taylor

A year ago I thought it was a done deal. I thought we weren't going to have a pool. I'm encouraged.

Trey Blue

I've always been able to score; this year I'm more of a playmaker who can score.

Ted Sim

The motels this year have been really accommodating for us.

Tim Franklin

The most important thing we've been this year is a symbol.

Matt Light

I've said that every year I've been here.

Kim Clijsters

It would make the year even more special,

David Richards

The way I went about it this year has been much better. The conversations we have had have been very good.

Tommy Tuberville

This is not going to be our most experienced year at quarterback,