Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flip Saunders

He's a barometer a lot for us. ... I was not as concerned about him not scoring or shooting or not being aggressive, but his rebounding totals were way down. He had some games in the first half where he'd come in with zero or one.

Chuck D.

Historically, it's not like GM has always been a great company. It's had it's cyclical down periods. But you need to look at the import of GM, not as much a stock but as a barometer of the economy.

John Bollinger

Part of the reason the January barometer works so well is a statistical faux pas. It uses January to predict the year, not the following 11 months.

Joyce Chang

Investors used to look at ratings for a barometer as to whether to sell or buy bonds.

Will Rogers

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Steve Specht

The greatest thing is, it gives you a barometer of where your season will shake out. That first week will show you where you stand . . . We always love playing in the Showdown.

Chuck D.

The Dow is more a barometer of the economy and not so much the stock market. The photography sector isn't all that crucial to the economy.

Willie Randolph

It was good to see him relax a little bit and get going. Obviously, spring training is not the best barometer for how you base these guys but, you know, he was 0-for-20 or whatever and he had a couple knocks so that's why you don't put a lot of emphasis on games like this because you can turn it around in one day.

Arthur Hailey

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Peggy Noonan

The most moving thing in a speech is always the logic. It is never flowery and flourishes. It is not sentimental exhortation, it is never the faux poetry we're all subjected to these days.

Jenny Lewis

I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Walt Miller

He knows how his mother was, he'll make suggestions and pass on information. He has quite a following there.

Tony Bui

Harvey kept going, 'Who's that guy following you around?,'

Paul Anderson

He regards it as a very sensitive matter and will be following up when he returns.

Jim Knight

It could have been even higher. We had some come in on that Friday (March 31) that we didn't process until the following Monday.

Sheldon Jacobs

The people that are still in (the Steadman funds) just are totally unaware. They are not following their investments, and that's the first rule of investing -- to follow it.

Theophilus London

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

Lynn Franco

We think a lot of that is reaction to the spike in prices at the pump following Katrina.

Marty Heires

We've been told we would get some shipments in December, they would not be dependable, and that in January we would get all we need.

Terry Hartle

I think it's unlikely that most of these schools in New Orleans will open before January -- if then.

Vita Sackville-West

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

Pat Ryan

Playing in Muskrat Hole, Saskatchewan, in the middle of January is a little lower on my priority list now. I think I need to do other things with my life.

Charles Bass

Refineries and distributors could have predicted January would be cold, ... There is much more to this than just the cartels.

Dennis Quaid

Can we get in here by January 1st (06)? If there's any way we can do it here, I want to do it here. This is the place that really needs it.

Venkaiah Naidu

If not tomorrow, it (the government) will go on January 27.

Angus Campbell

The first week of January is historically a positive week for equities.

David Boies

Was that your view on January 6, 1999?

Yogi Berra

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

Kaiser Chiefs

I Predict A Riot / Sink That Ship

James Bell

You can't predict what's going to happen. We'll take it a day at a time and see what happens.

Murray Gell-Mann

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Kevin Kelly

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Larry Niven

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Elizabeth Banks

One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.

Julie Gerberding

This is an unstable situation right now. We're unable to predict where this will go.

Julie Gerberding

This is an unstable situation right now. We're not reliably able to predict where this will go.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.

Chris Squire

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.