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.

Iyanla Vanzant

a very powerful, although delicate, chemistry between the way Dr. Katz, Miss Britten and I work. I'm committed to this process. I'm committed to 'Starting Over.'

Robert Toll

Demand at our communities, which began to soften in early September, now appears to be improving, although demand pressure from speculators has certainly passed.

Frank Hadden

Colin Noon is someone who interests me greatly. I tried to sign him for Edinburgh a couple of times and although I would have to speak to other selectors before making a decision.

Richard Thompson

A point each was probably a fair result, although I think we just edged it. Their goalkeeper played particularly well with three or four excellent saves.

James Matthews

The size and frequency of stock and other long-term incentives are on the rise in most parts of the world, although we are seeing a decline in the use of stock options in some developed economies, particularly the United States.

John Kostecki

After a long period of very light winds and difficult clouds, the breeze has finally filled in a little more consistently although its still under 10 knots. At this rate we would take 21 days to complete the leg.

Jeff Tjornehoj

Performance varies quite a bit, although the sector funds have had a lot of success the past few years.

Michael Oxley

I've never met John Roberts personally, although he was a young lawyer on President Reagan's staff at about the same time that I came to Congress in the early 1980s,

David McKeown

These deaths are an unfortunate reminder that West Nile virus can be a serious health threat, although death is extremely rare.

David Rosenberg

A year ago, 'deflation' was dripping off everybody's lips. Today, core inflation is off its low, but it's about the same as it was a year ago, yet all anybody can talk about is how far the Fed will hike.

Melissa Ringhausen

Our conference, the title is anybody's. There's no powerhouse. Anybody can win on any given night in our conference this year. That makes it fun and exciting --and crazy.

R. Robinson

Or the autobiography ? which I don't think anybody is interested in buying ? and there's also the film and television rights.

Dee Feazell

Of course, you'd love to get the ring, but I'm very happy with the way everything went this season. My main focus was to highlight the team. I didn't want anybody to think they were the key. Everybody had to do their part and everybody played a role.

Don Johnson

Of course whenever you make the playoffs it's an exciting time of year. All the past records go out the window, but at the same time it's a one-shot deal and you have to get it right the first time or else you have to go home for the summer. Every kids' dream is to make it to the state tournament. Our kids are no different from anybody else.

Amadou Doutchi

Of course, we are happy to receive this aid, but at the same time, we are trading our dignity for 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of sorghum, ... The Fulani man has never counted on anybody for assistance, just Mother Nature.

Josh McRoberts

North Carolina really did a great job on J.J., doing more than really anybody else had running two or three guys at him every time he had the ball. We knew teams were going to see that and everybody was going to try to do that, so we concentrated on trying to play off of that better.

Ryan Doumit

No one wants to lose, and no one likes it. We've got some guys who are capable of doing some good things, and it's up to us to do it. We can't blame anybody but ourselves because we've got the talent to do some special things. We're the ones who have to start winning.

Greg Erwin

Again, we're not overly concerned, and maybe that's wrong, with what anybody else is doing.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Scott Brown

We did real well. Having three girls in five events and we got 10th, I'll take that.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Chris Bucknam

You have to have the right surface, the right field events venues and the right track width in order to win those bids.

Stephen Jay Gould

If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range ...

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

John Benjamin Hickey

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

Miikka Kiprusoff

After seeing him play, it's kinda hard to take him seriously anymore.

Terrell Everett

Once we got down, it was hard to play catch-up. They did everything right.

Dan Penick

Actually, he told me if I work hard I could come in and start right away.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

Stephanie Davis

The more kids report bullying, the more that is a deterrent. The more young people feel safe, that promotes better learning. It's hard to learn if you don't feel safe.

Ira Sorkin

Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government.

Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any agenda. A judge can't have a preferred outcome in any particular case.

Marvin Emerson

Don't judge us on the first game, and don't judge us tonight. We'll be a different team when we get to February. And Quaker Valley will be there with us.

Indian Proverb

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins

Edmund Spenser

Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteeme, / How I him loved, and love with all my might, / So thought I eke of him, and thinke I thought aright.

Laura Marling

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

Tim Fleming

As the judge pointed out, loathsome and inexplicable for various reasons.

David Bloom

You judge things by comparables. They are comparable.

Karen Bass

You judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens,

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Robert Gallery

That's what we're shooting for. We weren't satisfied with what he had last week either. That's on us ? we want to get him over 100, way over 100, in every game.

Gary Larkins

That unit has really played well the last 4-5 games.

Rob Bohlmann

That took off right where things left off last spring.

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Jon Rogers

There are well-documented structural impediments to moving quickly in this industry.

Barbara Mikulski

I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

Augusten Burroughs

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Arthur Miller

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Ronnie Wulf

You see him playing the game, but you don't really get to see what he can do. At practice, he was just awesome.

Carmelo Anthony

You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.

Annika Sorenstam

You still are playing the same holes, it's just a different order.

Adam Dunn

You playing today, LaRue? What is it, a spot start?

Stefan Hell

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Pat Summitt

And we talked Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday ... we talk all the time. But did we talk about playing each other? No, because we had a different agenda.

Douglas Brinkley

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.