Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorenzo Codogno

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Mark Hansen

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Jim Albaugh

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

Avery Johnson

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who was affected by this tragedy,

John Hedgecoth

Our sense is that the number of affected voters is much smaller than the report indicates.

Patricia Russo

Our deepest, heartfelt sympathy goes out to everyone affected by the scope of this tragic natural disaster, ... At times like these, the performance and reliability of communications networks are more critical than ever. That's why our Lucent and Bell Labs teams are drawing upon their knowledge and expertise in network disaster recovery to help the Gulf Coast victims and our customers to rapidly restore and rebuild the region's vital communications networks.

Darryl Seibel

Our concerns would lie in two areas. One, the lack of communication with an athlete who ultimately will be affected by the outcome of an arbitration, and two, lawyers arguing over medals 14 months after the games are concluded is not good for the Olympic movement.

Tim Long

Despite the likelihood of a conservative outlook, we believe better momentum in the company's growth areas could start to change the 'lack of growth' sentiment that has weighed on the stock.

Patrick Leahy

a flexible plan that includes pulling our troops back from the densely populated areas where they are suffering the worst casualties and to bring them home.

Chad Anderson

Rural areas are not an attractive market for a lot of the big companies.

Alfred Blumstein

Rural areas are lagging because they are the last front in the 1980s crime wave that started with crack in the big cities and put guns in the hands of kids in gangs and outside gangs.

Paul Ferley

Pressures are particularly evident in the West where housing prices in local markets such as Riverside-San Bernardino (outside of Los Angeles) and Las Vegas are rising rapidly with an attendant marked deterioration in affordability. Rising prices in those areas seem more the result of speculative pressures and thus indicative of local housing market bubbles. There is the definite risk in these markets that prices will eventually need to correct sharply lower.

Jeffrey Kagan

SBC is facing pressure from at least two areas -- competition and the economy. Contrary to what many people might think, competitors are making a real dent in SBC's business.

Scott Morris

Quite honestly, when we first began the survey, the financial applications seemed to be the ones people most wanted. As you can see, however, things have changed quite a bit. Common areas now seem to be Internet publication, design, and multimedia. These types of trends have not always been so.

Pat Boss

Quincy clearly feels, because of its proximity between the potato-growing areas and the apple-growing areas, it is a great area to consolidate a lot of freight here from both the tree fruit, the potato and the vegetable industries.

Gary Compton

There will be school tomorrow, but there are some areas we can?t do bus pickups. Some areas, if we had to drive to now, would be pretty shaky.

Fernando Meirelles

Ralph deserves an award for this performance. He's so relaxed, so natural. We're used to seeing Ralph Fiennes as cold, rational. Here he's lighter. He brings a humanity to the role. He's played a lot of edgy characters. Here he plays an average character.

Greg Raymer

really did a lot to boost the popularity of the game. Viewers immediately liked Moneymaker a down-home boy from Tennessee and average players everywhere could identify with him. He's not flashy or fancy. He's a good guy who's not full of himself.

Kenny Tang

Property stocks sprang to life after falling about 10 percent on average over the past six months as rising interest rates dampened property market sentiment.

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

Bill Swank

Our customers are out of service less time only half as much as the national average so if we had bad maintenance we wouldn't have that kind of reliability.

Andy Bryant

Our expectation for gross margin percentage in the third quarter is 47 percent, plus or minus a couple of points. The change from the second quarter is driven largely by lower average selling prices of microprocessors.

Rob Ritchie

Our execution excellence strategy has delivered an outstanding first quarter. We have managed our cost structure effectively, responding quickly to changes in traffic. Our operations team has done an excellent job delivering improved fluidity, with average train speed increasing 17 per cent, yard processing time decreasing a full 32 per cent, and car velocity up 15 per cent over the same period last year.

Scott Kahan

People shouldn't chase returns. The average investor looks back at returns and buys based on performance. But people have to look at the worst-performing sectors, not the best-performing ones. That's where the smart investor goes.

Alan Parker

People should focus their energy on developing a taste for dark chocolate, because its high cocoa content means that it contains far less sugar than the average chocolate bar.

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.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Rick Anderson

Coming up here, it was pretty quiet. You're just sitting there and thinking how unfair the whole situation is.

Mack Brown

Coming up here, everybody picked us to lose. Nobody gave us a chance.

O. Singh

Coming up here and trying to defend is my main priority. I like playing golf tournaments, I like winning golf tournaments and this is one of them I'd like to defend if I can.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

Some people thought the hurricane season was over. It's not.

Mark Goodman

It was the (strangest) hurricane we've seen in a long time.

E. B. White

Even if there's no damage, it's going to take at least two weeks for refineries to come back. It's at least as serious as Hurricane Ivan, which we had last year. And it took six months to get production back to normal in that case.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Michael Fish

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

Ken Williams

By that time, we will have raised all the money we need for Hurricane Katrina victims.

Dave Barry

one of South Florida's most vital natural resources, a relentlessly sane voice in a howling hurricane of hypocrisy, hokum and hype.

Michael Chertoff

last summer FEMA, who reports to you, and the LSU Hurricane Center, and local and state officials did a simulated Hurricane Pam in which the levees broke. ... Thousands drowned.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Jeff Wangsness

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

Miley Cyrus

I don't have a normal life.

Carnie Wilson

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Edward Snowden

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Thomas Kuhn

No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

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.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Pat Herron

We had to come out focused, like we do every game. You've got to keep playing, because if you don't play 100 percent you get hurt.

Steve Simmons

Those refineries provide about 25 percent of U.S. needs,

Carolyn Wright

We're Utah. We'll be running 90-95 percent (capacity).

Kaylee Brown

There's no reason to go 50 percent from the free-throw line.

Keith Winkowski

There's nothing to say we have to go 4 percent higher.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Vernon Jordan

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

George W. Bush

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

Christopher Dodd

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Hugh Shelton

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Matt Allen

In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.

Wayne Carl

If September works and we can switch it, we'll switch.

John F. Kerry

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.