Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gianni Agnelli

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

Stephen Baker

The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.

Nikki Reed

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

Lyndell Zanotti

That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying things, just doing whatever he could. He used his own money. He liked helping the kids because he didn't have any kids of his own. He was very good to the girls.

Atsuko Abe

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

Todd Rosenbluth

We have a negative outlook on the telecom-services sector, preferring smaller, rural providers and one in Canada that, in our view, have stable margins and are paying out dividends and buying back stock.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

Gloria Gaither

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

Gillian Armstrong

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

Zoe Kravitz

I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

Zayn Malik

I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Vikram Seth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Brian Bell

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Roger Altman

The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.

Mark Greenberg

We have a national policy of wanting to provide help to evacuees during this time of crisis, ... It's very hard to see why the help they get should turn on which state they happen to be sent to.

Carol Adams

We know that there's several stages of emotional crisis that people go through. Right now, people are in the stage when they realize things won't work out quite how they thought.

Kathleen Stoll

We have a growing crisis. We aren't looking at solutions to the crisis. We're looking at cutting back the very program that has cushioned the impact.

James Knight

With the current pensions crisis, there is a real danger that we are going to have a generation who, having to pay off their student debts, are unable to save for their own retirement or support their pension-age parents.

Bill Nelson

Who knows what refineries are going to be shut down for some period time, and thus the crisis of what has been $2.50 gas and then $2.70 is going to rocket through $3? ... There is something wrong, up to this point, with the price of gasoline - it is not the supply and demand of the normal marketplace.

Hector Perez

It definitely wasn't one of the better years. The effect of the economic crisis in Asia, which started at the end of 1997, was felt first, then the fall in the price of oil and finally the overwhelming electoral uncertainty.

Saeb Erakat

We have a U.S. administration that's seeking to see the process as crisis management here and there. They're not telling Mr. Netanyahu to stop it.

Doug Brandy

We haven't reached a crisis point yet, this is just Day 5.

Imelda May

I'm the youngest of five - three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

Ian Mcewan

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

Zoe Sugg

Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

Will Shields

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

will.i.am

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Evel Knievel

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

David Bailey

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Tim Armstrong

The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.

Michael McNamara

The overall number did perk up at the end of the month. Higher gasoline prices did help a bit.

Red Adair

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

Dwane Casey

That was the main thing ? we ran out of gas with those guys. It was more a matter of running out of gas than anything else.

Gregg Laskoski

We know that they (motorists) are getting tired of hearing the rationalizations for the way gasoline prices are going higher.

Craig Gibson

We just didn't get after it tonight. I think we're just a little out of gas right now, but we'll get away from here and hopefully regroup Thursday and be ready Friday.

Tom Campbell

We were hoping for more RVs -- like 300. But it's tough to get them up north, and the gas prices didn't help, either, ... Last year it was $1.79 and now it's $2.69. You get about 6-8 miles to the gallon.

Lisa Madigan

We have a lot of information to sift through. There are 5,100 gas stations in Illinois, ... All you have to do is go out on the street and look up to see how much gas has gone up. We are making determinations as to whether or not there is a legitimate reason for that or whether or not we are being exploited.

Steven Wieting

We're not at gas prices that pose some kind of a tipping point.

Michael Woods

Virtually all of our natural gas is sourced through the Gulf region.

Frank Gillett

The pay-for-use model is an innovation, but there is a very unflinching standardization.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

Source Unknown

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Peter T. King

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

Jim Marquis

We have our suspicions on what it could possibly be and it's not attributable to any model year or at least to that 1991 model year.

Jenna Jameson

you can actually become a role model for women.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

Clint Eastwood

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Christina Sims

The are just hopping ready to get there.

Ed Pinckney

That was a long time ago. I'm ready for another one.

Mike Jaskie

We have a lot of work to do to get ready for November.

Brent Faurote

We have two left, and they have to be ready to go tomorrow.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Bob Consalvo

We've got our gold-plated shovels shined and ready for the groundbreaking.

Tom Slater

We're very young, with 17 newcomers, so it's especially important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to get us ready for the SEC season.

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Char Seward

I think it should have been taken seriously then.

Bryan Williams

We take every setback seriously because we want to stay on schedule. We'll keep testing.

Abu Sabaya

If they wanted to seriously talk to us, they should show it by removing the military. While the soldiers are here, there will be no talking.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Yanni

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

Kevin Krewell

The 1-GHz was a total win for AMD.

Mark Chapman

I was under total compulsion, ... Dateline NBC.

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.

Tubby Smith

We're not the same team. We're totally different. Whatever it is, we've got to keep it up.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I was pretty bad. I totally understand the decision.

Craig Brown

I had total confidence. He's made big ones before and he does it every day in practice.

Sofia Vergara

For me, this is a totally new thing,

Steve Capps

If it's structurally unsound it should be a total loss.