Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Hill

Of the 59 percent of the S&P 500 that has reported, earnings are down 18.1 percent. If we add that number to estimates for the rest, we're down 22.2 percent from last year.

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Daniel Snyder

The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.

Joe Carroll

Companies that give a million to (the high-profile) campaign don't add to what their normal giving is, ... They cut back (with) local charities. It's been four years in a row now. I joke that God's punishing me.

Bill Glassman

Companies should not look at this as an opportunity to add value just through the technology itself, but should have a clear-cut purpose for the technology.

Larry Crowe

(Coming) will improve (students') lives and the lives of others around them. (He's) someone that can add that kind of stimulation to the environment here.

Graeme Smith

Coming in to today I felt a lot better about my game. I was more settled and a lot calmer in my head and obviously bowling well does add to your confidence.

Ronald Hill

Despite the payroll employment number being higher than expected, the fact that average hourly wages were so small means that there are not a lot of wage pressures, not a lot of demands to add new workers and, therefore, not a lot to worry the (Federal Reserve) in this report.

John Stewart

Despite the industry's current trend toward consolidation, we continue to add new business relationships. As such, we are hiring experienced Loan Officers nationally to help support this growth.

Ali Behnam

These data show that there's a lot of value to branding. A lot of times when you're trying to promote your product, you may not see immediate results, but in the customer's mind, that campaign may be contributing to some of these bookmark conversion rates later on.

Larry Makinson

There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,

Al Franken

What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.

Tad Devine

We want a debate and a campaign about the issues,

Roger Williams

The Public Health Minister who should have done her homework instead defended industry. But critical mass has been reached and many other campaigns have been initiated to eliminate aspartame.

Paul Shapiro

The quality of life of a cage-free hen is so much better than the quality of life of a battery-cage hen that this campaign is meant to move the industry in that direction.

Tom DeLay

Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode

Ron Bonjean

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

Rose Gentle

Soldiers in Iraq have told me they don't want to be there. They want to come home. They have told us to step up our campaign of resistance to this government's war policies.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Soichiro Monji

Tech companies are still facing a tough time with drops in product prices.

Kevin Ryan

Technology spending by most companies is still weak, and the technology companies out there are feeling that,

Francis Gannon

Technology is part of the increasing productivity trend, and people want to own shares in the companies that mark this trend.

Lisa Cullen

Technology has looked like it's quite immune to the machinations of the Fed but I think people have gotten complacent. The Internet companies are very dependent on a constant flow of venture capital.

Carl Laundrie

The storm is eating up our dunes. It has cut up right next to the road.

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Atticus Shaffer

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Kip Pulliam

We'd get up six or seven, and they would come right back and cut it to three. They hit three-pointers. They hit free throws. They're just tough to stop.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Billy Childish

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

Tom Griffin

When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.

Aristotle Onassis

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Mitch McConnell

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

David Klein

Fishermen's Village is key to our survival. We need to stay there. We've been good to them in the four years we've been there. Right now, there's a war going on and we're losing servicemen and women. It's not the proper time to be throwing the military museum out in the street and dishonoring veterans in anyway.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

C. S. Lewis

One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Bryant H. McGill

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

Carson McCullers

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Charles R. Swindoll

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

Stephen Colbert

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Paul Decker

We've been briefed by the local organizing people.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

Mark Mann

We will spend well over $2 million on this facility.

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Andrew Bogut

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Les Harrison

If we got $16 million from Vancouver, that would be great.

J. M. Roberts

If we hadn't done anything, we would be $70 million in the hole.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Rupert Grint

I've tried to have a really normal life, and I have because my family treats me normal, and my friends treat me just the same.

Sigourney Weaver

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

Shawn Johnson

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Steven Morrissey

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

Michael Ian Black

I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

Michael Mandelbaum

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

Catriona Matthew

To start with three birdies in a row was perfect,

Charlie Sexton

I can still see that row of one-room shacks,