Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Harris

I would say it's very closely being looked at. Growers want to know, sheds want to know: Are they going to continue dumping duties or are they finally going to drop them?

Gary Rose

It can be detrimental to connect too closely to an unpopular president, particularly in a moderate district.

Roy Wilsher

Hertfordshire has had six recent training exercises on site in the last six months - the last one three weeks ago - and has worked closely with the site for many years to prepare for any incidents.

Brian Halla

Going forward, we will continue to closely control costs while investing in key markets to maximize our potential for profitability.

Mark Few

He's just got a knack for hitting closely guarded shots. And there aren't many players who can do that.

Drew Matus

His speeches are well thought out. After Greenspan, he's the one whose comments are most closely watched by the markets.

Paul Thompson

I thought about it very closely and I felt to illustrate the story it was the right thing.

John Carey

I think the focus will shift toward corporate profits. Whether they (the Fed) raise rates a quarter point or not, I think it's not going to be the main focus of investors' attention. People are going to be watching the earnings pretty closely .

Tim Richards

What makes me the proudest is that our families are close, work closely together and have a true Aloha between them. That is what we hold onto as dear and sacred.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

John Battelle

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

Kevin Brown

There is a kind of revolution going on, on the corporate desktop.

Ethan Harris

I think we know corporate profit growth can't stay at the rate we've seen in recent quarters. They (employers) have been squeezing the work force pretty aggressively, squeezing productivity out of workers and holding the line on wages. It's a matter of how much corporate profits slow down.

Doug Porter

I think it's quite possible revenues will come in on the high side of expectations simply because we've had very robust corporate profit growth over the last year.

Michael Kessler

It goes all the way to the top. I've seen it from corporate vice presidents to janitorial staff.

Jeff Emerson

I think this just shows that DaimlerChrysler is an outstanding corporate citizen. They are doing their part to help us recover from Hurricane Katrina.

Jody Kielbasa

I think they want to become good corporate citizens.

Theo Kitz

We may never be able to quantify from the outside whether this strategy works. It's a question of the corporate culture at Siemens.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Ben Reitzes

I think Xerox has got a long way to go. The earnings performance and outlook are even worse than anticipated in the pre-release.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

Peter Cardillo

We're in the midst of a technical correction, and I suspect for the next week or so we'll trade within this range. The market has already discounted a lot of the economic and earnings news.

David Jarvis

We're off to a soft start here ... We've had a good run in the last little while and we're waiting for more earnings to come out.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Michelle Wie

You have to focus or you won't play the way you want to. It was fun.

Andy McCollum

You have to focus on what you have to do, and obviously there are rumors swirling all over the place. We see the papers every now and then, too. You never know how things are going to end up." ()

Larry Starkey

You have to focus on what you are doing, and what you are doing is driving.

Eric Desjardins

You have to focus on the moment. There's no tomorrows.

Justin Blalock

You have to focus on scoring every time you get the ball. That's pressure on the offense.

Brian Beckwith

There are so many different scenarios that could play out that we can't be thinking about that. We have to focus on Friday and then on Saturday.

Miranda Kerr

Everyone has things that they don't love about themselves but I think that as a woman its much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Suki Waterhouse

Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.

Daniel Bruhl

Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

Saku Koivu

He's a strong man, tough to maintain down low.

Sergio Garcia

I think it's been a solid season, but I wouldn't say it's been extraordinary mainly because I haven't putted well,

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

William McDonough

we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.

Barry Hyman

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

Bruce Jackson

I think that's all been settled, I don't know what their point is now, anyway.

Frank Thomas

We've got to try and do something with this, because it's getting to the point where it's getting really frustrating. This is excruciating. After I run, it's just really, really sore. I ran the other day (Friday), and I ran hard, and it was really sore. I don't know what we're going to do now. Hopefully, we'll come up with something.

Royce Chadwick

We've done pretty well. It just comes down to whether we put an exclamation point on the season or a period.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Roy Wright

I think we?re getting to a point of equilibrium. I think we?re getting back to the norm.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

LenDale White

It's not about how the first or second quarter ends,

Meggie Ford

It's been like that all year. We always have one of those quarters when we don't play well.

Rob Haines

It's disappointing that they are restating earnings. We don't want another quarter of surprises.

Bob Hill

It was great. It was like a place revisited in my life. And I think the first quarter, it took me a quarter to kind of feel as comfortable as I should. Then once I got that first quarter over with, it was great.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Paul Weyrich

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

David Allen

If you have a son or daughter, there is a risk regardless of how you raise them.

Jane Krakowski

I'm a New York girl. I want to stay here and raise my son here.

Larry Harris

If you can raise up and shoot from 15 to 18 feet, you can play in this league,

David Scott

It's really a pretty simple model. Raise the pay.

Mike McAleer

It shouldn't raise alarms. We want to make sure it's safe.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Jeremy Friesen

The view on where U.S. rates go seems to be most contentious.

Glenn Thomas

And, we have been struggling with our rates ever since.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Saul Berman

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Marty Turco

You play it one game, one shift at a time.

Tony Johnson

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

Jamie Russell

You have to give Wisconsin credit. I thought they outworked us shift in, shift out.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Bible Bible

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

John Gandy

As we got toward the end of the year, he was indicating some things he had to complete.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

David Dearborn

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

Larry Davis

Everything has to go perfect. We're working toward that date. We'll see if we make it.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Turner Gill

I'll be watching right up front. Won't everybody?

Gavin Henson

I'll probably be watching it at home, with Charlotte.

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Madonna Madonna

I had the same thing when we were watching Live 8,

Brenda Johnson

It was surreal, just watching her. But this wasn't her first rodeo.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.