Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Byrne

I think Barbie is in another transitional period.

Agnes Nairn

The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity.

Richard Foreman

Barbie has a special relationship with women. It takes them back to being a little girl and fantasizing about what they're going to be in the future.

Jill Krutick

Barbie continues to be the champ of toys. Mattel has been able to spin gold out of the franchise.

Margaret Whitfield

The staggering number (for Mattel) was that U.S. Barbie dipped 30 percent. It's hard to say when people decide to throw in the towel, but obviously some folks have thrown in the towel.

Jennifer Hewitt

Twenty is a good number, ... That way you can be creative, cut their hair off, have Barbie parties. I got them free, so I had 75.

Chuck Palahniuk

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

Annie Lennox

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

Suzy Amis

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.

Doug Cauthen

He was a champion and it was a great privilege to have been around him. Even though he'd been out of service for a couple of years, we kept him in the same stall so he still felt he was part of things. That's what he deserved.

H. Hunt

He is the essence of sports in Kansas City and why there is a Truman Sports Complex and, frankly, why the two teams are there. He is and always will be a champion of all sports in Kansas City.

Steven Gerrard

He's a great player. He scores goals in the league, in cup competitions and also in the Champions League,

O.J. Mayo

I'd like to wrap it up with three in a row and be national champions next year.

Ben Curtis

I blindfolded my girlfriend at night and led her into the woods, where I had a blanket, rose petals, champagne and candles. I played a song I wrote for her, and the rest of the night turned out great.

Mick McCarthy

He has some useful Premiership and Champions League experience and his versatility provides me with cover,

Nigel Collins

If you're the champion and you get beat, the fighter who wins is the new champion. It's very straightforward. We offer fighters an alternative, and we don't strip them of their belts, and we don't charge sanctioning fees. It's very simple.

Jeff Thomson

In the end, if we don't win the Champions Trophy, who really gives a toss? For Australia, as long as these other guys are getting a game and learning something, then they are ready to go when they're picked (later).

Charlie Cyr

If the world champion falls, they get a minus-3.

Hugh Johnson

It confirms that as we started the fourth quarter the economy continues to slow, ... At the same time that the economy is slowing, there is ongoing tightness in the labor markets and ongoing upward pressure on wages.

Robert Sinche

I think the housing data continues to allay some of the worst fears on how the economy might slow, and has some impact on how the Fed may act next year.

Neal Soss

It is magnificent that inflation continues to be low, but retail sales are smoking.

Steve Carell

He does his job just well enough to keep it. The ridiculous exploits and faux pas are just this side of lawsuit territory so he continues to ride the wave of inefficiency and lack of expertise. I don't think that's necessarily unusual that one might be very good at one job and then is promoted, and you have no proficiency whatsoever.

Melissa Eisenstat

Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

Alberto Ramos

Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the first half of the year.

John Bond

In the near term, the outlook is encouraging. The world economy continues to grow steadily.

Andrew Harrington

Iran continues to weigh but there is a sense that it's a longer-term situation. I don't see any rash decisions about sanctions, embargoes or cuts in supply.

John Robertson

In a country where about half the population is reportedly threatened with starvation, the increase in inflation would be felt particularly hard as the dollar continues to slide.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

George Babicz

He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Tracy K. Smith

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Robert Plant

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Samuel Johnson

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

Virgil

The accursed hunger for gold.

John Murtha

You can't spin this. You've got to have a real solution, ... This is not a war of words, this is a war.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Jason Reitman

This is a movie more about spin and talk and lobbying than it is about cigarettes.

Kathy Duva

This isn't a 'Let's take him out for a spin and see how he is' fight.