Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Volpe

Any fee that the county implements, it's passed onto the home buyer. When you tack on fees or you tack on taxes, all that does is raise the price of affordable housing.

Jim Young

A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.

Craig Barrett

The bottom line is that we want images on PCs to become as easy to use and as ubiquitous as text is today. If digital imaging is easy, affordable and fun for consumers, we believe it will spur PC demand and contribute to the ultimate goal of creating new users and new uses for the PC platform.

John Lawrence

As people move to more affordable housing closer to work, it?s simply just a matter of supply and demand. They build more houses in Forsyth County because there is more available land.

Michael Howard

Proof of Concept testing is a critical step in the design and development process, helping to get the design job done right the first time. No vendor can afford to let customers detect problems after the switches and routers are deployed on an enterprise backbone. Neither can manufacturers afford unnecessary delays in going to market.

Lisa Carlson

People assume they've got to go the traditional route. But we are beginning to see a lot more affordable low-cost options.

Kevin Murai

The more diverse we get, the more business risk we take out. From a geographical standpoint, we can stand to afford investment in China now because other parts are generating good profit.

Jean Chatzky

Debt certainly isn't always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.

Mary Williams

Dear sirs. I am 70 years old and able to rake my leaves and burn them in a small pile. I stand there as they burn. All my near neighbors have said it is OK with them. I have serious back pain when I try to bend and bag leaves. I can't do it without pain. I want to keep my property neat and looking nice. I can't really afford $45 to have someone rake and bag them. A lot of people are allergic to tree mold what next, do we limit the number of trees in each yard? Hoping to burn.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Wally Schirra

As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

David Wu

The business of America must be more than just business, and engagement must be through more than just the cash register... Real engagement sees the Chinese people as real people, people like us, people with aspirations, with hopes, people who aspire to walk the path of freedom.

Richard Grimes

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Adam Markham

Bank of America is performing in ways that we would like to see throughout the American private sector. The company is the only financial institution to commit to a 2008 goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 3.5 million tons.

John Carlisle

Bank of America has chosen to take the coward's route of least resistance and pay off the shakedown artists in the reparations movement.

Ken Lewis

Bank of America does not have an eminent-domain policy related to commercial lending.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Jeff Cox

A president who does not have the confidence of the faculty cannot change the university.

Akio Yoshino

A possible slowdown in the U.S. economy is clear. Demand for overseas goods cannot be sustained at the current level.

African Proverb

A razor may be sharper than an ax, but it cannot cut wood.

Jahangir Khan

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

Richard H. Davis

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

Barham Salih

The state cannot become stable unless the Sunnis are involved.

Mats Sundin

As a team, we are scoring some goals but we still have a lot of work to do. If we want to compete with Ottawa and the other top teams in our conference, we have to do better in our own end.

Todd Helton

Any win is a good win, especially on Opening Day, but this is a game where we found a way to win. If we are going to compete this year, that's the kind of game we have to win.

Andy Roddick

Now I feel I can be a contender and when I'm looking into the grand slams it feels like I can compete all the way into the second Sunday.

Lee Brown

Teams can register to compete on our Web site. We're also still taking applications from craft and vendors.

Vin Lananna

The women's team has a solid pack through six runners, and we won't plan to rely on just one person to compete well. It will be a true team effort.

Damon Coupe

This is a team with some good talent but I think we can compete well with them. If we come out and play like I know we can, I think we have a shot at the upset.

Jeff Gundy

This isn't new. It's the same old, same old. We have to put in young guys to compete, so it starts with competing hard. As we compete hard, we make far too many mistakes and that's why we have the record we have. We're a mistake-laden, inconsistently competitive team.

Brent Guy

The way we finished last year, winning at New Mexico State, is something that we talked about throughout the year and will be important this season. We have to learn to win on the road to become a winning program and to be able to compete for league championships. We will have a lot of opportunities to do that this season.

Kyle Crookes

That's what we're going to have to do. Walking and executing is how we're going to compete with good teams.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

Mark Milner

The risks are going up nationally, but they're mitigated by a strong labor market and strong economy.

Bill Dudley

This is a pretty good report, I thought, in terms of the economy getting better.

Mark Vitner

This is another affirmation that we've gotten over the shock of the hurricanes and the economy is back on track to where it was before.

Scott Irwin

This is not just about Home Depot. This area's economy could use a shot in the arm.

Brian Spears

I want a competitive edge for my company, and, as a member of the community, I want to do the right thing. Energy efficiency has become more important in our lives.

Ken Williams

Right now, we're still in the grind of it. You've got to keep that edge to you. OK, yeah, (it's) a happy, joyful occasion,

Mark Zandi

This is going to keep energy markets on a razor's edge for the rest of the year,

Jim Rutledge

The weather back home was been terrible so I didn't want to lose my competitive edge sitting around the house.

Stefan Hell

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Eric Rothschild

Dover is now the thin edge of the wedge. When we talk about an actor outside nature we are talking about God.

Bible Bible

And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

Gloria Naylor

Even though the planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like I was; and unless there's some space, some place, to take a breather for awhile, the edge of the world - frightening as it is

Tim Duncan

We all didn't have that edge we needed. Offensively, they did kind of whatever they wanted to do. We can't win games like that.

Tom Freston

As a global media platform company, we are looking at various projects in many parts of the world.

Zhang Yansheng

The soaring Sino-US trade should be viewed in the global context.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Dave Edwards

The world has become global on everything else. Why not this? ... NASCAR used to be a Southern sport. Now it's coast-to-coast.

Ian Stewart

This is symptomatic of a stronger global economy.

Matthew Davis

This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Jeffrey Kagan

This could be a growth opportunity for AT&T with a quicker payoff.

William Sullivan

That type of growth is not sustainable, and we're headed to a more moderate pace this year.

Mary Freeman

That's just huge growth for us in one year.

Jay Bryson

That sliced off about a half a percentage point in growth.

Sherry Cooper

The modest downtrend in order growth is pointing to some moderation in the months ahead,

Matt Kelmon

You're not going to see hyper growth until October.

Bob Turner

You're looking at a very modest premium to its growth rate,

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Lorenzo Fertitta

We wanted something memorable, and I think Sting helps give us a memorable opening night.

Steve Mullins

At 6-7, he's the tallest goalie I've ever played with, that's for sure. It probably helps with screens.

Mike Rogers

At the end of the day, we're going to have a better system that helps people in need.

Ben Howland

We have a student who helps out with the video -- he tore his ACL the other day. That's how it's been.

Zach Woods

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

LaVerne Knox

Phillip has done a tremendous job for us. Mike is there too and helps out every way he can. If it's not Phillip leading the team, it's Mike.

Chris Campbell

If ten people get some information out of it, and it helps one person, then it makes the whole night.

Gary Keith

If this thing passes it helps Rick Perry.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Edmund Burke

To innovate is not to reform.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Andy Bechtolsheim

Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Robert Metcalfe

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Scott Adams

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

Ray Mabus

A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Henry Renteria

That phone call, or registering on line, is a key step toward getting help.

Bryant H. McGill

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

Alain Ducasse

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Jan Garbarek

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Gary L. Francione

People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

Debra Messing

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Atul Gawande

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

Eddie Van Halen

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Deepak Chopra

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

Michael Short

There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

David Russell

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

Garret Anderson

Very obviously, they've pitched well not making mistakes, living on the corners,

Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

Deirdre O'Kane

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

Larry Nicks

Originally, we were going to lose tennis but we're one of two schools with tennis courts. So we may end up with tennis and give up something else.

Carmelo Anthony

You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.

Ingrid Seward

The only power they have is by the respect that the people have for them, and if people lose that respect they have nothing.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Donald Trump

If you hang around with losers you become a loser

Robert Higgs

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Aubrey McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tim Powers

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Aristophanes

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Simone Weil

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

St. Jerome

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Rich relationships lead to much more than money. They lead to success, fulfillment, and wealth.

Herbert Hoover

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Jane Mayer

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.